Voyeurism in Fine Art Photography

"Voyeurism used to be a bad word, suggesting a furtive pursuit at once desperate and prurient, if not outright pathetic." Voyeur photography doesn't always have to be of the porny amateur variety: this curated gallery at Zone Zero looks at the subject through a selection of fine art images from 1850 (when it couldn't have really counted since exposures took so long back then and you couldn't quite sneak up on someone with your photo plates) to contemporary Peeping Tom-dom. According to the curator's statement, the exhibit strives to examine "the play between voyeur and object of desire." Whether it accomplishes that aim, or whether it just comes down to the play between your hand and your genitals, we think you'll enjoy it.
- A. Tolesco

· Voyeur (zonezero.com)
· Thumbnail: Pedro Mayer, "Eye Bar, Los Angeles, 1980"

Previously: Supervoyeur, Amateur Voyeur Blog, Project Voyeur