creep shots. creepshots. the new photography.
The new camera and distribution technologies are creating new perceptions on photography's place in society. New questions for photographers to ask and answer. The power relationship between the photographer and the photographed is at the root of it all.
It is not just women who are at the wrong end of this new world of "creepshots" . That iconic genre of Photography- Street Photography - has to look at its basic practices. It's 'take any creep up 'candid' picture you want as long it makes for a Good Picture' tenet has to take a double take. Photographers have to think again about the power relationship between them and the invariably less powerfull street people they snap for their dangerous creep up people 'decisive moments'.
We have reached a time Cartier Bresson once talked about - a time "when you can't photograph in the streets without a lawyer by your side " In the West , at least. The East is still open season.
Maybe that is why the developing third world continues to be the favorite hunting ground for Street Photographers from everywhere. No body challenges their cameras creepy and demeaning monoclular gaze.
The content on the creepshot forum isn't pornography, says Ryan, "but it is using people's images in ways they definitely wouldn't want authorised". For group members, she says, it seems to be precisely women's lack of consent – the violation of their privacy and agency – that is appealing.
While we associate this experience specifically with celebrities, we arguably all live in a paparazzi culture now. Cameras are ubiquitous, as is the technology to share and publicise pictures instantly. The throb of surveillance plays out in different ways. On the more benign side are the mild nerves many people feel when an email pops up to tell them they have been tagged in a Facebook photo, an image that could be from any moment in their life – recent or historical – now public, and open for comments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/22/creepshots-revenge-porn-paparazzi-women
The way I want to see and shoot myself.
It is not just women who are at the wrong end of this new world of "creepshots" . That iconic genre of Photography- Street Photography - has to look at its basic practices. It's 'take any creep up 'candid' picture you want as long it makes for a Good Picture' tenet has to take a double take. Photographers have to think again about the power relationship between them and the invariably less powerfull street people they snap for their dangerous creep up people 'decisive moments'.
We have reached a time Cartier Bresson once talked about - a time "when you can't photograph in the streets without a lawyer by your side " In the West , at least. The East is still open season.
Maybe that is why the developing third world continues to be the favorite hunting ground for Street Photographers from everywhere. No body challenges their cameras creepy and demeaning monoclular gaze.
The content on the creepshot forum isn't pornography, says Ryan, "but it is using people's images in ways they definitely wouldn't want authorised". For group members, she says, it seems to be precisely women's lack of consent – the violation of their privacy and agency – that is appealing.
While we associate this experience specifically with celebrities, we arguably all live in a paparazzi culture now. Cameras are ubiquitous, as is the technology to share and publicise pictures instantly. The throb of surveillance plays out in different ways. On the more benign side are the mild nerves many people feel when an email pops up to tell them they have been tagged in a Facebook photo, an image that could be from any moment in their life – recent or historical – now public, and open for comments.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/sep/22/creepshots-revenge-porn-paparazzi-women
The way I want to see and shoot myself.
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