Art History in the News: Exposed at Tate-Modern (The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/may/27/exposed-photography-tate-modern

by Adrian Searle

“Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, which opens at Tate Modern tomorrow, is full of sneaky images and surreptitious views, hidden cameras and nefarious goings-on. The show takes us from the American civil war to the burning oil fields of the first Gulf war, from an 1860s execution in China to the view from the witness room of the death chamber in a modern Mississippi penitentiary. There’s plenty that is ghastly and ghoulish, much that is seamy, and much that is innocuous but invasive – like Harry Callahan’s sneaky views of women lost in thought, and Yale Joel’s 1946 shots through a two-way mirror in a Broadway movie theatre lobby. Artist Bruce Nauman maps his studio in a video shot with a night lens. Nan Goldin makes a slideshow of her life and loves. The Japanese photographer Kohei Yoshiyuki photographed people having sex, and watching others have sex (and sometimes joining in), in a public park at night. The only ones not looking are the couples themselves.”

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