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title: "A brief analysis of the artistic merit of videos made by Peeping Toms/voyeurs"
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Maybe in the past it was more artistic (and consensual between
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photographer/cameraman and subject)
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I refer to Brassaï 's 1931 photo, "A suit for two in the magic city", which
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features some extent of (the suggestion of) male nudity.
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in it,
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clearly there are homosexual themes
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and there is some expression of
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intimacy as well
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Nowadays, if I were to
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use a popular expression, people are "going from bad to worse"
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And Peeping Toms/voyeurs who arrive later in history, in their "artistic work" - if it could be so termed - seem to demonstrate a clear lack of what the writer Edgar Allan Poe calls the Poetic Principle: their works do not "elevate the soul", as a poetic work should
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