The image is chosen as a most famous picture by "Unknown" Photographer by The Photograph Book (1997) ( ISBN 0 7148 3937 X) - a book of 500 photographs by 500 most famous photographers.
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."[1]
In the case of works where the creator's name is kept secret, the author's reasons may vary from fear of persecution to protection of his or her reputation. In 2007 the Washington Post published an article by an anonymous author describing the use of national security letters by the FBI. In this case, the author, who would have preferred to be named, was legally prohibited from disclosing his or her identity.[2]
In the case of erotic novels, although such works were formerly published anonymously to avoid discovery, many modern erotic novels are attributed to "Anonymous" in order to get them shelved alphabetically with other similar works.
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