Japanese court rules on Mapplethorpe’s pictures
By Megan • Feb 20th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)“Japan’s top court ruled on Tuesday that pictures by late United States photographer Robert Mapplethorpe are not obscene, putting an end to years of legal fighting.
Reversing a lower court ruling, the Supreme Court ordered customs to lift a ban on bringing a photography book, entitled simply Robert Mapplethorpe, into Japan from the United States.
In the 2003 ruling, the Tokyo High Court ruled that the book, which included images of male genitals, went “against good sexual morality”.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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