How many SEO keywords create a bestseller? “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870” is an exhibition organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern. It’s marketed as “a major survey that examines photography’s role in invasive looking,” and “explores provocative intersections of photography and voyeurism,” including but not limited to “sexually explicit pictures… celebrity stalking; photographs of death and violence… surveillance [like an unedited tape from a SM club]… sexuality and pornography.” If that sounds like TMI it’s because it kind of is.
Not only the images of all of the above are presented in hundreds of samplings, but every other picture is supplemented with a detailed label to explain (the unexplainable?)
Works of art by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Lee Miller, Paul Strand, Robert Frank, etc. are interspersed with gratuitous amateur shots; archival photos produced by war correspondents, police reporters, spies, and governmental agencies; and paparazzi steals originally intended for a short yet profitable tabloid life.
It’ll take you good 3-4 hours to get the scoop of knowledge carried out and unloaded on the [un]suspecting public with great abandon in this busy multi-themed show..
With all the elements for success in place, its U.S. premiere can potentially turn into a global blockbuster, breaking all attendance records known to art institutions. If upon thorough exploration of the exhibition you find yourself overcome with a desire to get a hand grenade and blow this effin’ world to pieces, and/or to whip out your iPhone- 4 and snap a picture of a woman in the gallery adjusting her bra strap, I beg of you: fight both. Beauty will save the world – or at least let’s hope so. “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870” runs through April 17, 2011 at SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, www.sfmoma.org.
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