By now we are all aware of Look Book’s gloriously vainglorious slew of styled fashion heads. Indeed, the voyeuristic tendencies of anyone interested in fashion will have driven him or her to the popular site at least once, if not repeatedly. Although a prime example, modern voyeurism doesn’t stop at just fashion. When the relationship between the iPhone and Twitter went from flirtation to full on fornication, one might have expected an assemblage of ensemble related images to dominate the internet. Instead it seemed that the iPhone had opened up a door for layman food photography – an obsession that took over the Twittersphere. Perhaps this is partially due to the fact that your food can still look amazing even if you are wearing dirty sweatpants, but more than anything, the trend reminds us of that what voyeurism truly is, is consumption – no matter what shape or form it may take.
