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Jon Rafman

In his project, Nine Eyes, Rafman curates a collection of street view images that were originally generated by the Google street view camera cars criss-crossing the world. 

For Rafman, the street view imaging service is a “massive, undiscerning machine for image-making whose purpose is to simply capture everything,” a machine that “takes photographs without apparent concern for ethics or aesthetics, from a supposedly neutral point of view.”

For Rafman, the mechanical nature in which the Google Street View cars generate their image results in a particular style, Street View photography, which is

“artless and indifferent, without human intention, ascribes no particular significance to any event or person.”

Davis Thomas Smith

Composited from thousands of digital files drawn from aerial views taken from internet satellite images, this work reflects upon the complex structures that make up the centres of global capitalism, transforming the aerial landscapes of sites associated with industries such as oil, precious metals, consumer culture information and excess. Thousands of seemingly insignificant coded pieces of information are sown together like knots in a rug to reveal a grander spectacle.

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Welke beeldaspecten gebruikt Jon Rafman bij het kiezen van de Google Street View foto's?

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