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The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

58 Lungomare 9 Maggio, Bari, Puglia, Italy

Initially attracted to the noisy amateur aesthetic of the raw images, Street Views evoked an urgency I felt was present in earlier street photography. With its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer. It was tempting to see the images as a neutral and privileged representation of reality—as though the Street Views, wrenched from any social context other than geospatial contiguity, were able to perform true docu-photography, capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intentions.

Art Fag City, IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View