Australian-born photographer Anne Geddes is famous for her depiction of babies as inanimate objects, fictional creatures and fresh produce. She has built an empire out of imagery that conjures involuntary infants and toddlers -- at the behest of their parents, whom we imagine to already have the name picked out of a psychotherapist for their future adolescent, plagued by memories of cabbage leaves and bright lights -- as figures of fantasy.

And that's messed up.


Then she went and made a multimedia project called Miracle that exclusively featured other people's babies caressed and serenaded by Celine Dion. Moms, secretaries, and Oprahs everywhere gushed with delight thanks to the combination of all newborns, lullabies, and flowers.

Witness the artistic disaster in its infinitely icky glory:

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