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Photographer as Voyeur - need help w/ project
So, I'm doing a 10-minute presentation in my History of Photography class, and I chose to do "Photographer as Voyeur". What I need your help with is finding sources that were AT ONE POINT IN PRINT that relate to my topic for wahtever reason. My (immediate) stance on this project is that while photography was born out of a scientific purpose has since lent itself to voyeurs excising themselves through art and pornography. With images such as this one:  I also have some from the same book shot through a keyhole which i thought was nice. So, anyway, I need help finding sources for the research part of my project. (As I said, VERY IMPORTANT, it can e online now, but had to be in print at some point.) I also need help 'focusing' the area of this wide open subject, and haven't decided quite which way to focus it yet. So: 1) Ideas for focusing 2) Print sources for research. GO. Thanks guys. adam Oct 08 06 03:30 pm Link ... Oct 08 06 04:31 pm Link go grab some helmut newton books - a few of them have articles in the front about voyeurism not just in his work, but elsewhere. Oct 08 06 04:37 pm Link i'm just gonna watch this thread and see what happens. Oct 08 06 04:39 pm Link Brian Ziff wrote: maybe you'll get to see b(.)(.)bies Oct 08 06 04:46 pm Link . Oct 08 06 08:28 pm Link  Oct 09 06 09:02 am Link Some research material: Museum of Contemporary Photography article The Furtive Gaze http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2003/05 … ve_gaz.php --------- Jan. 15 - Sept. 10, 2006 Contrasting Objectives: Fifteen Pacific Northwest Photographers http://www.whatcommuseum.org/pages/exhi … aphers.htm --------- THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN FICTION An annotated bibliography - with short synopses of books by title and or author The majority of the novels listed contain a main, or important secondary, character who is a photographer. But I have also included, and noted, minor mentions of a photographer if I considered this character/event to be significant in some way. I have not included novels in which the plot revolves around photographs, as opposed to photographers. The use of images in novels (for blackmail, for example) would require a separate, and far more extensive, bibliography. Although it was not a part of my emphasis, I have included a few short stories featuring photographers I encountered during my readings. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/71 … ction.html Oct 09 06 11:18 am Link Your premise is really weird, and the insinuation is insulting. Outside of the useless points people try to make in schools now, this subject would totally flop in the real world. (near dead silence to this thread might be an indicator) Call yourself a pig if you want, but don't wag your finger of condescension at the rest of us like that. The insidious propaganda that's rampant in schools sucks. How much is your tuition? Oct 09 06 11:30 am Link Photographer as voyeur? How voyeuristic is news work like this? Or street work in general? Pretty much so I think. Us news guys are as voyeuristic as they come... we intrude on pain; shame; grief;... even death... and as far as our editors are concerned "if it bleeds it leads." Workmen rescue unconscious delivery driver from a chemical spill in his van. ©2004_Studio36  Studio36 Oct 09 06 12:19 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: WTF are you talking about? Oct 09 06 12:36 pm Link AdamtheJohnson wrote: Scroll up. You're the one who stated your hypothetical premise, then bumped it three times. Oct 09 06 02:36 pm Link Click Hamilton wrote: Ummmm, no. But congratulations on jumping to conclusions. Oct 09 06 04:21 pm Link And one of the great practitioners of social voyeurism [aside from Weegee]... Henri Cartier Bresson  And then there is always Eddie Adams:  Provoking different reactions, to be sure, but if either one of those well known shots could NOT be described as BOTH compelling AND voyeuristic nothing can. Or perhaps Bob Capa's shot - Death of a Soldier - might do it for you.  Or this one... a few more voyeurs in evidence besides only the one with the camera.. [img]faulty link removed[img] So yes, photographers, at least those who can pry themselves out of a studio, are inherently voyeuristic... but they are not alone... they only make the temporal instant permanent. Or, as HCB would have it, they record the "decisive moment." A voyeur? Yes, of course and in it's original French root meaning>>> literally, one who sees, from Middle French, from voir to see, from Latin vidEre. "None are so blind as those who will not see" Studio36 Oct 09 06 04:36 pm Link ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Oct 14 06 09:43 pm Link |
