Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 is the catalogue for a survey exhibition co-organized by Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography at SFMOMA, and Simon Baker of Tate Modern, tracing the point at which the impulse to look becomes an urge to spy.

The book is organized across five sections: The Unseen Photographer, Voyeurism and Desire, Celebrity and the Public Gaze, Witnessing Violence, and Surveillance. It gathers work by both named and anonymous photographers, moving from hidden-camera street pictures and paparazzi shots to erotic photography and images produced by state and military surveillance apparatus. Artists represented include Sophie Calle, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, Harun Farocki, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, and Weegee, among many others.

The plates are accompanied by essays from Phillips, Baker, Philip Brookman, Marta Gili, Carol Squiers, and Richard B. Woodward, with a foreword by Neal Benezra and Vicente Todolí. The exhibition opened at Tate Modern in May 2010 before traveling to SFMOMA and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.