Well, there’s no official decision yet. The Sturges’ pictures had not been an issue until some of them appeared in public display on the Russian soil. Personally, I think that pictures of nude adolescents aren’t acceptable for public demonstration.
from another Russian news outlet:
The 69-year-old photographer has been in hot water over his works in the past. In the early 1990s, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers, who seized his equipment, but eventually pressed no charges against Sturges. In 1998, Alabama and Tennessee made fruitless attempts for his new book to be classified as child pornography.
Creepy.