THE WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY, CONTINUED: “I am more than baffled by the current wave of anxiety about adults taking pictures of children in public spaces. . . . The assumption that pictures represent a significant threat to children has acquired a fantasy-like grotesque character. We rarely dare ask the question: what possible harm can come from taking pictures of children playing soccer? Dark hints about the threat of evil networks of pedophiles are sufficient to corrode common sense. Tragically, what the dramatization and criminalization of the act of photographing children reveals is a culture that regards virtually every childhood experience from the standpoint of a pedophile.”