Dirty Windows

by Merry Alpern

Merry Alpern is a contemporary American photographer known for her controversial oeuvre and utilization of surveillance photography. Her acclaimed series Dirty Windows (1995) contains voyeuristic black and white images of men and women engaging in sex, doing drugs, and dressing or undressing at a low-rent brothel near Wall Street in Manhattan. “Although the notion of the ‘female gaze’ has never really interested me, as a woman I could project some of my own experiences onto the pantomime in the window,” the artist remarked on the series.

Genres: Photography

112 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Aaron the Pink Donut]

blurry voyeuristic fun!