Though the pictures were taken with her consent, in 1981 Shields’s mother sued Gross on the grounds that his continuing sale of them was damaging to her daughter’s reputation, and she obtained a provisional ban on their further use. It was one of a dozen images of Shields designed, according to Gross, to reveal the not-so-latent sexuality of the prepubescent child.
The original picture, for which Shields was paid $450, was taken by fashion photographer Garry Gross in 1975 for a Playboy publication titled Sugar and Spice. Intent on questioning notions of authorship and originality, he rephotographed an existing image that had already inspired two years of legal debate. Prince, Schorr tells me, has never met Shields. It tells you everything about what we fear and desire.” “I found it really disturbing, but my impression always was that Richard made the piece because it was disturbing. “I always thought that it was a perverse picture,” says Schorr, who has since made a documentary about Prince, and befriended Shields when she photographed the actor/model last year for Interview magazine. When artist Collier Schorr sublet Prince’s studio in the 1980s, the photograph was hanging in the hallway.
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