WINDOW PAIN: A shot from his neighbor’s apartment shows a doll in the window of peeping lensman Arne Svenson. (NY Post: Chad Rachman)
The Post yesterday turned the tables on a sneaky photographer who snapped pictures of his unwitting neighbors in Tribeca — by pointing a camera at his own windows.
“It would be funny if we got him in photos,” said Mariel Kravetz, from whose apartment The Post took shots of the home of photographer Arne Svenson’s.
The artist secretly took pics from his apartment through Kravetz’s window and the windows of other people in her building.
He then put the images up for sale online and in a Manhattan gallery.
Our image of Svenson’s apartment shows an artist’s doll facing out toward the street and some plants on his fire escape.
Payback is sweet for Kravetz, who was horrified to find out she appears in two photos on display in Svenson’s show. She worries he has more of her daughter.
“What does he have that we haven’t seen?” she asked. “He probably took thousands or more. I have a young daughter. It’s more than me. Does he have any of her? That’s my biggest concern.”
She added, “It’s very shocking to see myself in the pictures.
“I can recognize how I’m sitting on my bed. I would never imagine a neighbor poised with a camera watching me.”
If it’s any consolation, Kravetz may be able to get some free artwork of herself.
“He offered to give us prints of ourselves,” she said.
Using a high-powered telephoto lens, Svenson photographed his neighbors through their floor-to-ceiling windows.
Meanwhile, another irate couple filed a lawsuit because their two children were photographed for the unconventional show at a Chelsea gallery.
Martha and Matthew Foster are demanding Svenson give up his negatives and stop selling the shots, according to the lawsuit.
The couple found the photos of their two children, a 4-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl, in a blog item about the exhibit earlier this month.