On the eve of a vote on Bill C51, privacy and surveillance are among the moment's top domestic preoccupations. It'a fitting then that an exhibition at Toronto's
Stephen Bulger Gallery with the title, "Surveillance," should be making headlines in the New York Times' "Lens" blog. Though, in this context, the breach of privacy was in service of art rather than data collection.
The exhibition focuses on the work of Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz, whose postwar photographs often framed vignettes of rooftops and windows – the views from above that are often overlooked.
The
Times reports:
“Surveillance is a technique he used,” said Robert Gurbo, curator of the
Estate of Andre Kertesz, who worked with Mr. Bulger on the exhibit. “While the pictures are somewhat voyeuristic, they are really about observing intimacy.”
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Source: New York Times.