SURVEILLANCE
2016-08-29Who is watching you? In the 21st century, it is hard to escape the camera’s all-seeing eye. With every movement recorded by cameras, it is difficult to remember that surveillance is not a modern construct. This exhibition examines photography’s role in secretive looking from the 1860s to today.
Dating from 1864 to 2014, the works in this exhibition fall under categories of spying/hidden camera, photography of the forbidden, military surveillance, areas of heavy surveillance, and mapping satellites and drones. Also included are examples of counter-surveillance that either prevent watching or surveille the watchers.
Opposite – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French (1908–2004). Brussels, 1932
Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2017
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4225 Oak Street
Kansas City
Missouri
MO 64111
