IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View
13 Aug 2009 by célinePeople have seen, or maybe not, Google’s army of hybrid street eye view documenting our world, our cities. This series of photos found on Art Fag City are Google street view photos like an augmented Diane Arbus. It’s fascinating! We are talking of something beyond photojournalism, what Cartier-Bresson calls “real life reportage” or street photography”, Google Street View is capturing the world like a hidden camera. The truth in these captures is vibrant, and the reality is beyond what we’ve known so far as documentary images.
58 Lungomare 9 Maggio, Bari, Puglia, Italy
31 Calle de San Dalmacio, Madrid, Spain
Rue de la Huchette, Paris, France
The ‘indifferent’ gaze countered even the sentimentality of the ubiquitous embracing Parisian couple of French street-photography.
Berwick Rd. Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Via Valassa, Rho, Lombardy, Italy
Others with a more libidinal nature may single out images of prostitutes captured by the roving Google vehicle.
2368 IA-141, Dodge, Iowa
Main Street, Rapid City, South Dakota
Cartier-Bresson goes global, brainless, serendipitous. And yet there are a million “decisive moments” per hour, and the google car-army ends up flashing a few.