July 20, 2011 · 3:07 pm
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité, surveillance

photo by David Henry: http://www.davidphenry.com with his very kind authorization. 🙂

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21 responses to “Liberté, égalité, fraternité, surveillance”

  1. darkvador69
    July 20, 2011 at 4:07 pm

    excellent !:D

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  2. claudeb
    July 21, 2011 at 2:07 am

    I'm speechless. This is all that needs to be said about the modern authoritarian state — and it doesn't even have many words.

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  3. Mickeyjoe-Irl
    July 21, 2011 at 4:07 am

    Liberté, égalité, fraternité,

    You could also add irony.

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  4. slackwrdave
    July 21, 2011 at 7:07 am

    Wow. What a find! I do like France though. :heart:

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  5. pfelelep
    July 21, 2011 at 10:07 am

    note the camera is on the "fraternity" word, and not on the "liberty".that makes sense, somehow…

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  6. Liu
    July 22, 2011 at 2:07 am

    ça sent photoshop… 😦

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  7. slackwrdave
    July 22, 2011 at 2:07 am

    Originally posted by Liu:

    photoshop

    I was thinking that was a possibility.. It was fun anyway.

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  8. hungryghost
    July 22, 2011 at 1:07 pm

    beautiful!

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  9. claudeb
    July 22, 2011 at 2:07 pm

    Nope, I doubt it's Photoshop. You can see where the cable has been buried in the wall and plastered over, behind and above the camera.

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  10. Liu
    July 22, 2011 at 6:07 pm

    Felix, It's quite easy to do with Photoshop but can be true on the same time. Sometimes virtual and real are so close ! 🙂

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  11. claudeb
    July 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    It may be easy to do, I don't know. But would you have remembered to add that little detail?And yes, the symbol is important either way.

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  12. pfelelep
    July 23, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    Could be photoshop, as it's soooo easy to do, but kinda be true, ans it wouldn't surprise me to find a camera on a gov' building.Anyway, it's more about the symbol, isn't it?

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  13. anonymous
    August 2, 2011 at 3:08 am

    Anonymous writes:I'm not an expert but I don't think it's photoshoped. Nothing obvious anyway. The shadows for instance, are quite right.

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  14. anamorphose
    August 14, 2011 at 6:08 pm

    salut Philippe, c'est moche, cela me fait penser au livre d'Orwell « 1984 ». Et en Grande-Bretagne l'exécutif fait diffuser par sa police les images des personnes ayant participé aux émeutes.http://www.lejournaldepersonne.com/2011/08/catch-a-british/

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  15. anonymous
    February 3, 2012 at 4:02 am

    Anonymous writes:It's not Photoshopped, I put my own picture of this at http://www.davidphenry.com/Paris/paris588.htm There you can see Photoshopped versions behind the real picture if you like…

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  16. pfelelep
    February 9, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Oh, I believe you are the real artist behind the cropped picture.You don't mind if I'm posting this on my blog? I re-used the pict from "thisisnthappiness.com", I had NO IDEA it was from you.

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  17. Mickeyjoe-Irl
    February 9, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    I thought of your post when I saw this.But it turns out that this one is faked.

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  18. pfelelep
    February 10, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    @Mick: it somehow reassure me if it's a montage. But the main idea of being overwatched is still here.I red somewhere that Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451 dislike internethttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury#Personal_life

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  19. Mickeyjoe-Irl
    February 10, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    Originally posted by Ray Bradbury:

    We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

    I only know of the one internet. That's plenty for me. 😉

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  20. anonymous
    February 13, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    Anonymous writes:My photo with the surveillance camera next to the words Liberté, égalité, fraternité is Not Photoshopped, except, naturally, where I put in the words surveillé and fiché. This latter manipulation, that's Photoshop!

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  21. Liu
    February 18, 2012 at 4:02 pm

    Trop fort le gif 😉

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