Exposed: voyeurism, surveillance and the camera @ Tate Modern

“Since its invention, the camera has been used to make images surreptitiously and satisfy the desire to see what is hidden”

“Is invasiveness inherent to the medium itself? What does it mean today to look and to be looked at? How do you define the public realm today if we all live in public; how do you define privacy and propriety in the 21st century?”

“What’s left when you embrace the focus but also the collateral information on extremities? The era of the space of frame collapse?”

Slideshow:

- Walker Evans, Simon Norfolk, Gossage, Henri Cartier Bresson, Helen Levitt, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Lewis Hine