{"id":55003,"date":"2011-08-18T14:45:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T18:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ipcamerasupply.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T19:05:07","slug":"the-art-of-stasi-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/the-art-of-stasi-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Stasi Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simonmenner.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px;margin-right: 10px;border: 2px solid black;float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/morgen-contemporary.com\/images\/phocagallery\/simon-menner\/thumbs\/phoca_thumb_l_menner_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, these aren&#8217;t images of ironically dressed hipsters culled from the pages of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanoutfitters.com\/urban\/index.jsp\">Urban Outfitters <\/a>catalog but rather\u00a0the uncovered surveillance archives of the East German secret police, the Stasi.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/extended\/archives\/simon_menner_images_from_the_secret_stasi_archives\/\">Simon Menner&#8217;s dicovery<\/a> and display of this archive is not meant to be humourous, it&#8217;s a reminder to the viewer of the overbearing nature of government agencies as Menner remarked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-germany-art-stasi-idUSTRE7784H720110809\">Reuters reporter Sarah Marsh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;These were used during courses on how to dress up and blend into society,&#8221; the 33 year-old artist said. &#8220;They seem pretty absurd now, but it was meant seriously &#8212; this is evil stuff.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Other photos revealed that Polaroids were used to document how an apartment was arranged before a search took place so that objects could be returned as\u00a0found; leaving no trace that your privacy had been completely violated.<\/p>\n<p>This display is meant to be a lasting reminder that the &#8220;art of disguise&#8221; has obviously\u00a0advanced and will continually remain a part of our lives. Whether we know it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/18\/in-classified-photos-the-art-of-surveillance\/\">NY Times Lens Blog<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-germany-art-stasi-idUSTRE7784H720110809\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/jmcolberg.com\/weblog\/extended\/archives\/simon_menner_images_from_the_secret_stasi_archives\/\">Conscientious Extended<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, these aren&#8217;t images of ironically dressed hipsters culled from the pages of an Urban Outfitters catalog but rather\u00a0the uncovered surveillance archives of the East German secret police, the Stasi. Photographer Simon Menner&#8217;s dicovery and display of this archive is not meant to be humourous, it&#8217;s a reminder to the viewer of the overbearing nature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272263,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55003\/revisions\/272263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}