Pictures of Diana on display at London's Tate Modern

From a glimpse of Marilyn Monroe's cleavage as she arrived for a film premiere to newspaper coverage of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the world of voyeurism, surveillance and the camera lens was exposed at Tate Modern.

The display spans a variety of images captured on film and not always with the subjects' knowledge, from the late 19th century to the present day.

It looks at themes of eroticism, the cult of celebrity and violence, as well as surveillance on the streets around us.

At the centre of the exhibition are copies of newspapers from August 1997 covering the deaths of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed in a Paris car crash, including shots taken of them holidaying together before they died.

Dame Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton also feature lying in an embrace among the pictures on display, as does a shot of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fleeing a photographer in Central Park.

And Monroe is snapped crouching forwards while turning up to a film premiere in 1953.

A statement from the London gallery said: "The issues raised by Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera are particularly relevant in the present context, due to the increasing availability and use of street surveillance and mobile phones, and the circulation of pictures taken in this way in the media and on the internet."

Voyeurs are also put in front of the camera, in a series of photos taken using infra-red sensitive film in the 1970s by Kohei Yoshiyuki, which show spectators sneaking up to watch fumbling couples under the cover of darkness.

A section in the exhibition on "witnessing violence" includes a series of prints from 1932 titled A Man Dies in the Street, showing a view of a man collapsed on the floor, as a crowd gathers.

Another image from 1977 shows a dead man lying in a pool of blood in a street.

Among the images under the heading of "surveillance" is Shopping by Mary Alpern, featuring footage surreptitiously filmed in changing rooms by a miniature camera hidden in the photographer's purse.

Ways of keeping cameras secret are also in the display, including a man's shoe with a camera hidden in the heel and a camera concealed in a walking cane.

Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera will remain open until October 3.