Dirty Windows

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Dirty Windows by Merry Alpern First Edition, Published by Scalo 1995 Medium Format Hardback As New Condition, With Dust Jacket About Merry Alpern is a contemporary American photogr apher 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. Show more