Culture

Somebody's Watching You: A Style Surveillance Project in Brooklyn

"Our camera does not discriminate."
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"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy," wrote E.B. White in the opening lines of his classic book, Here Is New York.

White was writing in 1949. In today’s New York, the gift of loneliness can still be found in abundance. The gift of privacy, on the other hand, seems to be getting harder and harder to obtain. Or maybe we’re just changing the way we define it.