was hooked and has been acquiring invasive photographic firsts ever since. Especially intriguing to her was a salacious side project by impressionist Edgar Degas, one of the first major artists to use the camera as a tool for voyeurism. Those photographs, Phillips says, “look like peep-show pictures of people doing things like getting dressed or drying themselves.” Phillips found other snapped breaches of privacy by digging through the National Archives and private collections. The resulting exhibit, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, is on display at the museum through April. It chronicles the history of photographic intrusion, from hidden cameras to celebrity stalking and recorded violence. Here’s a peek at a few first exposures.

Authors: Rachel Swaby

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