Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Idea 8: Yoyeurism

Voyeurism

   Dictionary
-An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects.
-       practice of spying on people


Yoyeurism is a way of watching and observing people.  One technique to observing others is watching them without them being aware of it.  The voyeur can observe their subject from a distance or using hidden cameras or two-way mirrors.  Yoyeurism plays an important role in my work because I am observing women in their spaces, I wait until they are in their own moment to take a photograph of them in their space. 



Quotes

“Of the two forms that voyeurism takes in our time -- watching other people have sex and seeing other people's homes -- the latter is by far the more interesting and, in so many instances, the more deeply personal.”

''London, happily, is becoming full of great men's houses, bought for the nation and preserved entire with the chairs they sat on and the cups they drank from, their umbrellas and their chests of drawers. . . . We know them from their houses.”---- Virginia Woolf

Article :


This article is about how there are two different types of voyeurism in our time, watching people have sex and observing people in general and their personal spaces.  This article mentions and bases this information off of Dr. Johnson’s Doorknob: And Other Significant Parts of Great Men’s Houses. Which is a collection of photographs by Liz Workman who documented famous and prestigious men’s houses.  

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