NAN GOLDIN
This image captures an off guard intimate moment of the subjects life. Goldin makes use of the available light to create an eery atmosphere in the picture. The way the image has been shot makes the subject resemble a dead body in the way the eyes are closed, hands crossed over the body and with the shape of the bath similar to a coffin. I think Goldin knew how effective using the bathwater against the thin body in the blueish light would be in creating a sinister undertone to the image, its like you're watching someone on their deathbed, and it doesn't make for particularly comfortable viewing.
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HELMUT NEWTON
this image is a perfect example of voyeurism, even though it is constructed, the angle of the image makes the viewer feel like they are peering through a hole into the room where the women are standing, as though the subjects of the image do not know they are being watched. Obviously, the image is designed to do this. Newton knew how to take people more darker desires and put them into fashionable images in a way that makes voyeurism seem glamourous and high profile. This image is very clever in the way it draws the viewer to look at the women and really loose focus of the rest of the image, as if the whole point is to make it seem as if you yourself are peering into the room.
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MERRY ALPERN
This image is similar to the other two, in the way that it shows the viewer something they aren't necessarily supposed to see, but Alpern, unlike the other two, took these images without any permission from the subject. She took the images through a window of a brothel that she came across one day secretly, and slyly. These images show a sort of underworld, that most people don't enter. the fact that you can see the bar across the glass of the window almost makes it seem like you're looking into a cage, as if the subject behind the glass might be trapped there.
