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‘Rear Window’ is an online exhibition inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s famous 1954 film about the seductions, and the dangers, of looking.

Hitchcock returned obsessively to the theme of voyeurism, delighting in forcing on his audience the queasy thrills of the unobserved observer, and implicating them in the associated risks of seeing what one shouldn’t, or misinterpreting what one sees. Rear Window could be thought of as a lock-down movie: photojournalist ‘Jeff’ Jeffries (James Stewart) has a broken leg which keeps him stuck in a wheelchair in his apartment, and we are trapped there with him, …