CHICAGO.

DAILY NEWS, Friday, June 3, 1977

Nude photos cloudy–but ban is clear By Marcia Kramer -Pornography was probably the furthest thing from Jane Wenger’s mind when she snapped the camera shutter. But a John Hancock Center official blushed when he saw the pictures and as, a result, five of the eight shots have been banned from an exhibit that had been scheduled to open at the building Friday.

The photographs show various parts of Ms.Wegner’s nude body against a background of billowy clouds. Several of the pictures are so artsy., it’s hard to tell just what they are.

BUT JOHN BRIGGS, public relations director of the Hancock, had a pretty good idea. And he didn’t like what he saw.

He told Ms. Wenger, 33, the pictures were “not tasteful” and could not remain in the exhibit.

Other exhibitors, members of Artemisia, a women’s co-operative art gallery at 9 W. Hubbard, were deciding Friday whether to pull out of the show in protest.

MS. WENGER, who has been taking photographs for 13 years, considers the eight Jane Wenger submitted to the exhibit as “abstract.”

“They’re certainly not sexual particularly, and ,they’re not pornographic. They sort of transcend the sense of nudity,” she said. They’ve been displayed without incident at several locations, including a suburban high school.

On one other occasion, Ms. Wenger said, some of her nude photographs were censored. But that happened in Spokane, Wash., “and I figured, well, Spokane, Wash. “Spokane is not very enlightened,” she added, “but Chicago is.”