Larry Rivers's Daughter Seeks Return of Nude Videos - NYTime

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Larry Rivers was a celebrated and famous American artist who worked with the likes of Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning and Frank O' Hara. Though he died in 2002, New York University has bought Rivers' archive from the Larry Rivers Foundation. This is all well and good- what university doesn't want the archives of one of the most achieved post-war creators in our nation's history?- but there is more to the stash of chronicles than just old photographs and musings. There is also a film Rivers produced during the 70's that documented the growth of his young daughters... and their breasts.
Ms. Tamburlini said her father filmed his daughters every six months over at least five years for a body of work he titled “Growing.” If she objected, she said, she was called uptight and a bad daughter. When she confronted her father as a teenager about the films, she said he told her “my intellectual development had been arrested.”
In 1981 Rivers edited the footage into a 45-minute film that he planned to show as part of an exhibition. The girls’ mother, Clarice Rivers, who also appears in parts of the film, intervened and stopped him.
In the film Rivers tells the girls to take off their clothes and then zooms in on their breasts from various angles. He interviews them about how they feel about their breasts and whether boys have started noticing them. In some scenes Clarice Rivers appears with her daughters, displaying her own breasts and talking about them. - The New York Times