Google street view

Doug Rickard:

I saw some of Doug Rickard's photographs at the MoMa yesterday...images taken from Google Maps. They are very reminiscent of color street photography from the 70's- Eggleston, Stephen Shore, etc. Rickard's images are published in a booked called "A New American Picture", which seems to be a riff on Walker Evan's "American Photographs".  Knowing the artist's intent gives the photographs a new dimension though...I'm not that into the idea of an artist "taking photos" using the internet, but a phenomenon like Google's street views is a part of our media-based and image-swamped society that can't be ignored. I started looking at some other artists working with this process-

Michael Wolf

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Jon Rafman: http://9-eyes.com/

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Apres Garde: http://buchr.tumblr.com/