Leigh Ledare's Mother Photos Of Mom Tina Peterson Having Sex Cause Controversy [VIDEO]; Art Photography In "Pretend You're Actually Alive" Reminscent Of Goldin, Clark; Mother Tina "Impos[ed] Herself On Me As A Subject"

Are Leigh Ledare's mother photos which depict his mom Tina Peterson having sex controversial?
Leigh Ledare's mother photos have attracted a lot of attention thanks to a show Pretend You're Actually Alive, which features photography he took of his mother Tina Peterson having sex with younger men.  Some of his photography is currently part of a group show in London.
Leigh Ledare's mother photos in Pretend You're Actually Alive are "technically capable, [and] some of the images are pretty good" according to the Telegraph.
Art photography has a long history of controversial subjects, including the work of Larry Clark, a mentor of Ledare, and Nan Goldin, who has curated a show of Ledare's photography.
Leigh Ledare said about his mother photos in Pretend You're Actually Alive that "the extremely open and intimate relationship I have with my mother ... was developed through the work. (It) comments on the confusion around these sexual boundaries ... through imposing herself on me as a subject, she was asking me to be complicit in her sexualisation. I saw her sexuality as a means of antagonising her father and refuting expectations he had for how she should behave as a mother, daughter, and woman of her age."
In a recent interview, Leigh Ledare talked about how he started making the mother photos in Pretend You're Actually Alive: "I arrived home not having seen her for a year and a half.  She knew I was coming and opened the door naked." Ledare saw this as his mother's "way of announcing to me what she was up to, at this period in her life - almost as though to say, 'Take it or leave it.' I had a camera and began making photos of her then. She was the catalyst."
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When the interviewer asked if he was turned on by his photography work in Pretend You're Actually Alive, Leigh Ledare siad: "I don't know what to say ..." he laughs. "There are many ways to be excited. Towards a sexual object, towards direct honesty and openess. I think already in the background there were some foggy boundary issues. What people talk about as being Oedipal - there's a flirtation with that, but the boundaries were never actually crossed." 

"There's a lot of emphasis on me being her son, but the work looks at archetypal relationships; also fantasy life and social conventionseverybody who looks at it brings their own understanding of their own relationships. We end up displacing what is culturally taboo. The work is trying to look at those blind spots."