Went to the Tate Modern Exposed exhibition . ‘Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera’ – with some pieces showing people unawares with their guard down. Great exhibition, some amazing photographs!
Showed long lens photography, night vision cameras, infrared and CCTV all play their part in taking pictures of people without their knowledge.
Here are some personal highlights:
Leonard McCombe '[Eyes right is executed with almost military precision by dining car males aboard New York bound 20th Century Limited as Kim Novak eases into a seat]'
Yale Joel '[Man adjusting overcoat and grimacing while looking in trick one-way mirror, lobby of Broadway movie theatre, Times Square, New York]'
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Unknown Photographer .A young man called Amos Gexella looks back towards safety while perched on the sixth-floor balcony of a building in downtown Johannesburg, 4 August 1975. An estimated 2,000 onlookers yelled: “Jump! Jump!” Two hours later, Amos rolled off the parapet and fell to his death
Detail from Subway Passengers, New York, 1938 by Walker Evans.
It was such a delight to see so many beautiful photographs all bought together and to see such familiar and iconic works in actual photograph form rather than in print or online. Room after room of quality images, it's a credit to TATE and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that they could collate such a mass of relevant works and present them in such a fabulous way. Go and see it!
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