Jacqueline Louise Livingston (August, 1943 – June 21, 2013) was an American photographer known for her work exploring woman's role as artist and person and investigating the boundaries of intimacy and propriety. Life and career Born Jaqueline Louise Barrett in Phoenix, Arizona in August 1943, raised in Chandler, Arizona and schooled at Arizona State University, with her then husband, John Livingston, she organized Students for a Democratic Society on the ASU campus in the mid-1960s, spearheading the major SDS activities of civil rights demonstrations, education about corrupt government practices, and protests against the war in Vietnam. (reference Jacqueline Livingston, March 22, 2009) In the mid-1970s, Livingston began exploring male sexuality in her work as "a way to overcome the distance she felt from the male body" producing a serious of images including naked images of her son, husband, and father-in-law. Livingston's goal was to create a series that addresses the gender imbalance in nude photos as well as empowering her own sexuality by creating “sexy” images that appeal to her heterosexuality, challenging the social perception women's sexuality and art production. She was a photography and art professor at Cornell University until she was fired by the university in the summer of 1978 because of publicity over a series of photographs of her son in nude and masturbatory poses. Upon inquiring as to the cause of her dismissal, Livingston reported she was supposedly told by the chair of the art faculty, "You can't be a feminist and expect to be on this campus - furthermore, you can't photograph male genitalia." Demonstrating, the issue of censorship and cultural repression of transgressive photographic works, which was common within the 1900s because of the introduction of pornography laws. Connie Samaras, a feminist writer and artist who is a professor of art at UC Irvine, writes: Of all her images, though, it was this series of her then six-year-old son masturbating which caused her the most trouble. Like many photographers, Livingston was in the habit of photographing her child since birth. Thus, by the time he reached six, he was completely comfortable with the camera. Moreover, Livingston and his father tried to provide a climate for their son in which nudity was nothing to be ashamed of. The images you're looking at are a grid of nine photographs of her young son sitting cross-legged. His head has been cropped and the focal point is his