Pecker (1998)

John Waters's 1998 comedy is the cheerful answer to every grim film about exposure. Edward Furlong's Pecker works in a Baltimore sandwich shop and snaps his family, friends and neighbors with a secondhand camera, until New York art collectors discover him and his subjects start paying the price of being seen. Christina Ricci co-stars, and Waters's affection for his hometown oddballs keeps it sweet. Underneath the jokes is a real point about street photography: the people in the pictures never asked to become art, and fame for the photographer can mean humiliation for them.