{"id":1601,"date":"2013-05-28T17:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2013-05-28T17:17:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T21:17:39","slug":"who-your-neighbor-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1601","title":{"rendered":"Who Your Neighbor Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arnesvenson.com\/theneighbors.html\">Photographer Arne Svenson<\/a>, much to the irritation of his neighbors\u2014poetic license not being what it once was\u2014took photographs of them from across the way, through their windows, and then made a gallery show of it. This of course raises all kinds of privacy questions (that&#8217;s the art at work, one argument might go), but he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/arne-svenson-neighbors-exhibit-it-legal-take-secret-photos-people-their-apartments-1267631\">likens himself to a bird-watcher:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[My subjects] are performing behind a transparent scrim on a stage of their own creation with the curtain raised high. \u2018The Neighbors\u2019 don\u2019t know they are being photographed; I carefully shoot from the shadows of my home into theirs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/arnes-neighbors-e1369775778714.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/arnes-neighbors-e1369775778714.png?resize=750%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"arnes-neighbors\" width=\"750\" height=\"446\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/arnes-neighbors-e1369775778714.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnestes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/arnes-neighbors-e1369775778714.png?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The neighbors are &#8220;livid,&#8221; according to one report, for any number of reasons; it does not appear that they are scheduled to receive a cut from the proceeds, as much as $7500 per photograph (at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saulgallery.com\/\">Julie Saul Gallery<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer Arne Svenson, much to the irritation of his neighbors\u2014poetic license not being what it once was\u2014took photographs of them from across the way, through their windows, and then made a gallery show of it. This of course raises all kinds of privacy questions (that&#8217;s the art at work, one argument might go), but he likens himself to a bird-watcher: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}