Jon Rafman, The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

The Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Jon Rafman

Publisher
JBE Books
Year
2011
ISBN
978-2-36568-001-1
Specifications
160 pages
16.7 x 24 cm
English and French
Introduction by Jon Rafman
Poem by Guillaume Aubry
Design by Renaud Othnin-Girard
Series: Follow Me, Collecting Images Today

The first monograph on the work Rafman made from his study of Google Street View. For three years the artist strolled around the free world through the nine eyes of the roving camera and caught scenes that owe as much to reportage as to invention.

“Technology is creating new ways of seeing that are slowly creeping into the look and feel of everyday life. But Rafman also critiques Street View, and it is in this critique, not in the images themselves, that the new aesthetic is to be found, revealing the underlying mechanisms, biases and power relations of such an accumulation.” — James Bridle

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