voyeurism, cont.
from the series The Park, 1971, by Kohei Yoshiyuki
Tangentially related to previous post on surveillance cameras is yesterday’s article in the NYTimes: Sex in the Park, and it Sneaky Spectators, discussing Kohei Yoshiyuki’s photographs of and within a subculture of voyeurism in the night life of Tokyo’s parks during the 1970s. Of the images that I have seen (Document: Park, originally published in 1980, to be republished this fall), the photographs are much more about the watchers of the furtive trysters than about the trysting itself. (Note to self: infrared flash for nocturnal discretion!) I love that the first exhibition of these photographs, in 1979, required viewers to enter a darkened gallery with a flashlight.
from the series The Park, 1973, by Kohei Yoshiyuki