STATE-SPONSORED VOYEURISM – Photography from the Czechoslovakian Security Services Archive

Vice Magazine – STATE-SPONSORED VOYEURISM – Photography from the Czechoslovakian Security Services Archive:

We will probably never know the proper names of some of our favorite photographers of the last century. You see, these people were not working for the sake of artistic glory. Instead, they served a totalitarian state apparatus that was not at all unlike the cheerful government in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. And so what follows, dear comrades, are surveillance photographs taken by the Communist secret police in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 80s.