Something that links in nicely with ‘Project 2’ (coming later next week), is my trip this summer to see the exhibition Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera at the Tate Modern, London.
Surprisingly it was my first experience of an exhibition as I hadn’t been to an art gallery before.
In summary the exhibition explored photography’s role in voyeuristic looking in culture (from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: spanning both Modernism and Post-Modernism) and our relationship when viewing these images.
The themes that interested me the most were ‘Celebrity & the Public Gaze’ and ‘Voyeurism & Desire’.
Thoughts
• Celebrity: Due to cultures demand (our desire) for candid pictures of celebrities, supplied by the paparazzi, it has now become harder for celebrities to control their images and personas. The demand has increased as a result of an aggressive post-modern world and media, the rise of the internet and a change of focus in public relations.
• Voyeurism: My favourite series of photographs were Kohei Yoshiyuki’s The Park (1979). Yoshiyuki photographs the voyeurs in a Japanese park; a comment on scopophilia itself.
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