The Watching Menace: Crowds, Voyeurism and Pictures

We’re within the crowd and watching in his album of discovered images from collector Robert E. Jackson’s archive.

Did you push your self into the guts of the gang, get in with the ‘in crowd’, and did run with within the mob? Come, let’s collect spherical and crane our necks, see what everybody else is …

I’m in with the “in” crowd
I am going the place the “in” crowd goes
I’m in with the “in” crowd
And I do know what the “in” crowd is aware of

– The ‘In’ Crowd by Bryan Ferry

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

beware those that search fixed crowds for
they’re nothing alone
beware the typical man the typical girl
beware their love, their love is common
seeks common

– Charles Bukowski, The Genius Of The Crowd

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too”

– Rudyard Kipling, If

“I wanna live like common people
I wanna do whatever common people do
Wanna sleep with common people
I wanna sleep with common people like you”
Well,​ what else might I do?
I mentioned “I’ll, I’ll see what I can do”

– Pulp, Common People

When I come residence at night time
I bolt the door actual tight
People name me on the telephone, I’m making an attempt to keep away from
But can the folks on TV see me, or am I simply paranoid?

– Rockwell, Somebody’s Watching Me

 

For all to be achieved, for me to really feel much less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there ought to be an enormous crowd of spectators and that they need to greet me with howls of execration.”

― Albert Camus, The Stranger