Customers in Alabama and Tennessee sued Barnes & Noble for stocking the books, resulting in protests throughout the United States, largely inspired by conservative radio host Randall Terry. In 1998, unsuccessful attempts were made to have his books The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities classed as child pornography in Arkansas and Louisiana. A grand jury subsequently declined to bring an indictment against him.

In 1990, his San Francisco studio was raided by FBI officers and his equipment seized. His work has been the subject of controversy in the United States. He has taken some digital photographs but prefers to work with prints. Sturges primarily works with a large 8x10-inch-format view camera. Much of his work features California resident Misty Dawn, whom he shot from when she was a child until in her twenties. His subjects are nude adolescents and their families, primarily taken at communes in Northern California and at the Atlantic-coast naturist resort CHM Montalivet in Vendays-Montalivet. He graduated with a BFA in Perceptual psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. From 1966 to 1970, he served in the United States Navy as a Russian linguist.

Sturges pled guilty in 2021 at Franklin County (MA) Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child under 16. John Sturges ( / ˈ s t ɜːr dʒ ɪ s/ born 1947), known as Jock Sturges, is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families.

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