Art of Peeping: Photography at it Limits

        This article talks about the fine line between artistic freedom and breaking the law. Arne Svenson is a photographer who likes to interpret human action by watching them when their gaurds are down. He took pictures of his neighbors from his apartment window without their permissions, and this resulted in him being sued and questioned about his integrity. Even though the pictures were "painterly" and the people in them couldn't really be identified, it was an invasion of privacy.

         The courts decided that he wasn't guilty because of the first amendment's freedom of speech, but this also ignored the people's rights to privacy.Other artists had done projects like this, where they documented human behavior.  Kohei Yoshiyuki photographed couples  having sex in public in Tokyo, and Shizuka Yokomizo also surveild her neighbors, but she sent a note out warning them before she did it. Svenson spied on people when they were in the comfort of their own homes. I think that photography should have some boundaries, if a person only decides to take "peeping" pictures then they shouldn't have full protection from the freedom of speech.