Students from the Digital Photography and Darkroom Photography classes traveled to Minneapolis to visit both the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Walker Art Center with a stopover at Pizza Luce. Two complimentary exhibits, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 at the Walker, and Angela Strassheim’s Evidence at the MIA, offered students a look at historic and contemporary photography wrought with ethical and social issues.
“Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. Investigating the shifting boundaries between seeing and spying, the private act and the public image, the exhibition reveals the myriad ways photography has brought to light the forbidden and the taboo. Homing in on sex, celebrity, violence, and surveillance, it provokes an array of uneasy questions at the intersection of both power and pleasure.”