The Canary Chirps
Image credit: Merry Alpern
The latest edition of my new privacy newsletter, The Canary in the Data Mine, features scopophilia, baby spying, and surveillance couture. Read it here. Subscribe here.
An excerpt:
One of my favorite instances of artistic surveillance is photographer Merry Alpern’s Dirty Windows. In the winter of ‘93, Alpern visited a friend and discovered a window in the friend’s apartment faced the window of a bathroom in a strip club in the opposite building. Alpern became obsessed with the narratives playing out across the way and returned many times to record a series of gritty black-and-white images starring sex, drugs, and bathroom activities.
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