The Art of Peeping:
Photography at the Limits of Privacy
I found this
article to be quite thought provoking.
I completely agree that what Arne Svenson shot was
legal. He wasn’t shooting anything
inappropriate and he wasn't trying to expose any of his neighbors. If he shot his neighbors with the
intentions of using them as examples of humanity then I do not see a
problem. I am however shocked that
he won his case. Now it seems all
of our laws are taken so seriously no one can get anything creative done if it
involves dealing with the general public.
I really like this project and find it
very reviling, not of the subjects but of humanity in general. I personally feel the freest when I am
completely alone and surrounded in privacy. Taking photos of people while they experience complete
privacy allows people to look at humanity and see what they do when they are
completely free.
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets
At
first I found this article very difficult to follow. Then as I got further into it I begin to see why we were
asked to read this article along with The
Art of Peeping in the same week.
While The Art of Peeping looks
at surveillance as an art form How Laura
Poltras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets looks at how the government abuses
their power to survey the people.
Poltras is a filmmaker who was put on a do not fly list because of her
work. She was harassed every time
she flew just because of a list she was on. I find this to be ridiculous; I can’t even imagine how this
could have gone on for as long as it did.
Our
government was worried about her not because of what she was trying to do but
because of what she was trying to expose. Our country stands by the right to freedom of speech
in theory. Yet if anyone tries to
expose the government they will be put on a list and harassed until they
stop. There is no freedom in
this. I enjoyed this article
because it really opened my eyes to how controlling the government can be.
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