INDEX ON CENSORSHIP FOR FREE EXPRESSION

Vol 26 No. 4 Jul/Aug 1997 Issue 177
Published by Writers & Scholars International Ltd., Lancaster House, 33 Islington High Street, London N1 9LH

In photo feature titled "Censorship UK" with 4 images by Andres Serrano, Edward Lucie-Smith, Delmas Howe, and Ludovico Carracci, the photograph titled "Mike Welder" by Jack Fritscher is banned by British law from Edward Lucie-Smith's photo book for the "general public," Ars Erotica. Full-page reproduction of censored photograph, page 181. Earlier, "Mike Welder" was published, without objection because of its "non-general public" target audience, in the "gay" photobook, Jack Fritscher's American Men. Gay art is judged differently—if judged at all. The photograph is from the video "Uncut Muscle Mechanic: Mike Welder" by Palm Drive Video.