New York Exhibition | The Society of Spectacle and Labor Issues (2)🌟

He captured spectacles and the public's fascination with them. His lens often included journalists and onlookers. 🌸🍃 It was an era when tabloid media had just emerged, and he keenly captured the drama and voyeurism within. At the same time, he turned his lens towards social injustices, denouncing the flaws of capitalism. 🎢🌟 Twenty years later, Guy Debord in his renowned "Society of the Spectacle" argued that in modern society, spectacle replaces real life, with social relations mediated by performance, images, and consumption. 🌸🍃 Everyone is constantly watching and being watched. Weegee's images seem to echo Debord across time and space. 🎢🌟 ps Another exhibition, "American Job," features the works of hundreds of photographers, reviewing the development of various labor movements in the United States from 1940 to 2011, which is also very interesting. Labor issues of each era are accompanied by surging social trends. 🌸🍃 From post-war concerns about basic labor rights, to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, the protection of rights for African Americans and women, to unemployment issues during globalization and economic downturns, growing class differences, and the plight of immigrant workers, etc. Under the photographers' lenses, the silhouettes of labor issues from generation to generation are compiled into a book. 🎢🌟 It feels like a journey without an end. There are always new problems, but fortunately, things are getting better. #NewYorkExhibitionDiary #NewYork 🌃🌟