{"id":1437,"date":"2008-04-30T13:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/index.php\/artists-photographers-comment-on-miley-cyrus-photo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:08:53","slug":"artists-photographers-comment-on-miley-cyrus-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/artists-photographers-comment-on-miley-cyrus-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists, photographers: Comment on Miley Cyrus photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/images.huffingtonpost.com\/gen\/20140\/thumbs\/s-MILEY-large.jpg\" hspace=\"7\" alt=\"Vanity Fair Miley Cyrus\" height=\"190\" \/>The it-borders-on-kiddie-porn photo\u00a0of Miley Cyrus in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine screams for comment from artists, photographers, parents, teens, and anybody else who wants to jump onto this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/04\/27\/miley-cyrus-topless-in-va_n_98836.html\" rel=\"noopener\">controversy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Miley, who was photographed by Annie Leibovitz,\u00a0\u00a0has issued <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/miley-cyrus\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement <\/a>saying\u00a0she&#8217;s embarrassed by the way the photo turned out. And her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, is reportedly upset.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood types have already weighed in with their\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/04\/29\/miley-cyrus-vanity-fair-s_n_99280.html\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal?&#8221; comments<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parents, what do you do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Artists, is the photo truly art, as the Vanity Fair editors claim?<\/p>\n<p>Photographers, if given the opportunity, would you have shot a famous 15-year-old half nude?<\/p>\n<p>Bloggers, bring it on.<\/p>\n<p>Artists often comment about how difficult it\u00a0is to generate publicity for themselves. Commenting on controversial topics is one of the best ways.\u00a0During the teleseminar I hosted on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicityhound.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;How Artists Can Sell More Artwork from Online and Offline Publicity,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0I suggested artists create a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Google.com\/alerts\">Google Alert <\/a>for\u00a0topics they want to follow. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google Alerts will keep you\u00a0updated weekly, daily, or several times a day about when that topic appears someplace online, either in a blog post or video or news story.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The it-borders-on-kiddie-porn photo\u00a0of Miley Cyrus in the current issue of Vanity Fair magazine screams for comment from artists, photographers, parents, teens, and anybody else who wants to jump onto this controversy. Miley, who was photographed by Annie Leibovitz,\u00a0\u00a0has issued a statement saying\u00a0she&#8217;s embarrassed by the way the photo turned out. And her father, Billy Ray\u2026&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/artists-photographers-comment-on-miley-cyrus-photo\/\" class=\"rmlink\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":5,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[605,619,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-1437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-news-events","8":"tag-photos-graphics","9":"tag-publicity-stunt","10":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41565,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/41565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}