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In her story “Voyeurism or Art?,” my friend Jackie Tobin at PDN questions whether the subjects of Yasmine Chatila‘s new images are, in fact, fair photographic game. Yasmine’s conceit is to take pictures of people in their apartments, without their knowledge, from some outside vantage point.

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Photo by Yasmine Chatila.

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It’s very Rear Window. Or perhaps a less polite version of the work of Shizuka Yokomizo, whose subjects present themselves at their window at an agreed-upon time. Shizuka was part of “Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,” in 2003, which is how I learned of her.

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Photo by Shizuka Yokomizo.

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(Over at Conscientious, Jörg Colberg draws parallels between Yasmine and Merry Alpern’s “Dirty Windows.”)

Along less racy lines, there’s Nadav Kander’s series “The Parade,” in which he offers revealing moments of ordinary domesticity as seen along the Parade, a coastal road in southeast England. “The 150 or so houses that line one side of the road all share uninterrupted views of the sea from the front, whilst from behind they are overshadowed by Dungeness, the oldest nuclear power station in England,” he writes.

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From "The Parade," by Nadav Kander.

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There are lots of “Parade” photos at Nadav’s site in the “Work” section.

And then there are the photographers who craftily manufacture secrecy and then shoot it. Like David Drebin. David’s photos often possess a sexual charge, even when they’re glittering nightscapes with not a person in sight. That charge gets turned up to 11 in provocative images like Hiding Behind the Blinds, which is a very unshy 48 x 60 inches. Hey, you said you wanted to see what people are up to in private…

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"Hiding Behind the Blinds," by David Drebin.

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Vienna-based PhotographersLimitedEditions.com has just introduced a new edition of David’s photographs. Edition 5 shows off some of his most sybaritic work: “Legs in Berlin,” “Girl in Orange Dress,” the one above, and more. Each of the C-prints is signed by the artist and priced at 5,000 euros. They’d look great in someone’s home—for those brave enough to display them openly.

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