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<h1class="post-title">A brief analysis of the artistic merit of videos made by Peeping Toms/voyeurs</h1>
<timedatetime="2020-03-12T00:00:00+00:00"class="post-date">12 Mar 2020</time>
<p>Maybe in the past it was more artistic (and consensual between
photographer/cameraman and subject)</p>
<p>I refer to Brassaï ‘s 1931 photo, “A suit for two in the magic city”, which
features some extent of (the suggestion of) male nudity.
in it,
clearly there are homosexual themes
and there is some expression of
intimacy as well</p>
<p>Nowadays, if I were to
use a popular expression, people are “going from bad to worse”</p>
<p>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</p>
