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 04/02/2013 01:38:49 PM · #1
Infrared flashbulbs! Voyeurs in the park! Tokyo in the 70s! Disturbingly fascinating series of photos...

NSFW, you are warned. No nudity, however.
 04/02/2013 01:49:31 PM · #2
that's um, interesting..
 04/02/2013 01:54:00 PM · #3
Fascinating and quite creepy and disturbing. An interesting social document as well.
 04/02/2013 02:28:18 PM · #4
Yes, fascinating on many levels, thanks for link Bear.
 04/02/2013 02:41:33 PM · #5
Photographic voyeurs watching voyeurs watching exhibitionists, now being watched by us.
 04/02/2013 02:56:26 PM · #6
Originally posted by franktheyank:
Photographic voyeurs watching voyeurs watching exhibitionists, now being watched by us.

Bingo!
 04/02/2013 05:10:40 PM · #7
For somebody who is not easily creeped out... that was surprisingly creepy for me. It manifested almost like how I'd imagine those who won't swim in large bodies of water feel (not a problem I have), wondering what was just outside touch and vision.
 04/02/2013 05:16:13 PM · #8
i think i see my dad in one of those shots.

j/k

disturbingly fascinating to say the least.
 04/02/2013 05:34:23 PM · #9
Originally posted by spiritualspatula:
For somebody who is not easily creeped out... that was surprisingly creepy for me. It manifested almost like how I'd imagine those who won't swim in large bodies of water feel (not a problem I have), wondering what was just outside touch and vision.

That's an interesting (and insightful) observation. Speaking for myself, because I'm deaf I find being involved in any sort of activity outdoors, in public, in the dark, is eerily frightening. Walking through a park for instance, KNOWING that there are people outside the very limited range of my vision... These images, to me, are nightmares. Also, I see in them a sort of direct thematic connection to the current rash of "zombie" images. Don't those voyeurs feel zombie-like?
 04/02/2013 11:21:26 PM · #10
Wow. Put me firmly in the "seriously creeped out" camp!
 04/02/2013 11:41:59 PM · #11
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

That's an interesting (and insightful) observation. Speaking for myself, because I'm deaf I find being involved in any sort of activity outdoors, in public, in the dark, is eerily frightening. Walking through a park for instance, KNOWING that there are people outside the very limited range of my vision... These images, to me, are nightmares. Also, I see in them a sort of direct thematic connection to the current rash of "zombie" images. Don't those voyeurs feel zombie-like?


Robert, that's EXACTLY the sort of thing I thought of (the zombie etc things). I'm not going to pretend to know what it's like to not having hearing, but it makes me very uneasy when I'm forced to wear a hood due to rain when I'm backpacking and bushwacking solo, ESPECIALLY at night. To me, it seems like a similarly uncomfortable situation.
 04/02/2013 11:52:28 PM · #12
Originally posted by kirbic:
Wow. Put me firmly in the "seriously creeped out" camp!


+1

Can you imagine being the woman and having an extra hand suddenly touching you? It's bad enough that they're watching, but the touching adds an extra, extra creepy aspect.
 04/03/2013 12:40:04 AM · #13
Beyond creepy. I can't believe that the couples are unaware of the voyeurs.
 04/03/2013 12:53:34 AM · #14
Originally posted by jomari:
Beyond creepy. I can't believe that the couples are unaware of the voyeurs.

You don't know Japanese culture, then. They live in such incredible density that they have learned to ignore proximity. I'm not sure I've phrased that properly, but...
 04/03/2013 12:59:53 AM · #15
So it's not that they can't see, hear or feel them, it's just that they don't care?
 04/03/2013 01:37:42 AM · #16
Originally posted by jomari:
So it's not that they can't see, hear or feel them, it's just that they don't care?


Accustomed with contact is more how I'd phrase it. I'd also say they are caught with the moment too, which exacerbates it. I don't think any of them would be OKAY or happy with knowing the outcome, as noted by the decrease following the publicity.

Message edited by author 2013-04-03 01:38:22.
 04/03/2013 10:20:44 AM · #17
Originally posted by jomari:
So it's not that they can't see, hear or feel them, it's just that they don't care?

Not quite. Remember:

1. Those people are all wrapped up in themselves at that moment, throes of passion and all that, so their senses are turned inward as it were.
2. It's virtually pitch-black out where they are; the images are shot with infrared flashbulbs.

So, if you're someone living in a culture where privacy is virtually unobtainable, if you live with your extended family and sleep 4-to-a-room and so forth, then you manufacture your own privacy via darkness, a bushy corner of some public space, and a willing suspension of disbelief.
 04/03/2013 11:00:27 AM · #18
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
and a willing suspension of disbelief.

Surely that should be a willing suspension of belief?
 04/03/2013 11:47:18 AM · #19
Wow. Men with no lives...
 04/03/2013 12:12:09 PM · #20
Originally posted by tanguera:
Wow. Men with no lives...


Exactly.
 04/03/2013 01:13:47 PM · #21
Originally posted by SaraR:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
and a willing suspension of disbelief.

Surely that should be a willing suspension of belief?

Think it through:

"No. Yoshi! No! Someone might see!"
"It's DARK, honey, and there's nobody here. Come on! I want you so bad!"
"Oh, Yoshi, I love you, you know I do, but..."
"Darling, just TRUST me! There's nobody there!"

Muffled groans ensue, as she suspends her disbelief and gives in to her raging desire...

(ROFL)
 04/03/2013 01:36:13 PM · #22
Robert - do you have a side line in pulp romantic fiction?
 04/03/2013 01:36:17 PM · #23
That could be the beginnings of the next '50 Shades of Grey'
 04/03/2013 02:41:20 PM · #24
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by SaraR:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
and a willing suspension of disbelief.

Surely that should be a willing suspension of belief?

Think it through:

"No. Yoshi! No! Someone might see!"
"It's DARK, honey, and there's nobody here. Come on! I want you so bad!"
"Oh, Yoshi, I love you, you know I do, but..."
"Darling, just TRUST me! There's nobody there!"

Muffled groans ensue, as she suspends her disbelief and gives in to her raging desire...

(ROFL)


*clap**clap*
 04/04/2013 02:09:47 AM · #25
What about the click of the shutter or the thump or g-wop of the flash tube on some of those shots he's pretty close, does creep you out though, that's what you get for rolling around in the bushes.
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