Big Brother is watching you

YEAR 2010

Big Brother is watching you

A closer look at the everyday world can offer many unusual discoveries. In a time …

A closer look at the everyday world can offer many unusual discoveries. In a time of ubiquitous surveillance, surprising and hilarious scenes from Google Maps Street View have often circulated around the Internet; some of them are lucky coincidences, others are pranks.\u2028
By sampling images from Google’s Street Views, German photographer Michael Wolf has created a new kind of street photography, where the decisive act is not releasing the shutter, but searching and cropping images made without human intervention, by an automobile with nine mounted cameras capable of a 360° perspective, automatically recording without discrimination. \u2028
These beautifully composed, blown-up pixilated moments appropriated from Google’s much-contested copyrighted images, depict people engaged in private or awkward moments and occasionally implicated in shocking interactions. They are a pointed commentary on the increasing ubiquitous presence of this omniscient American corporation.
The exhibition is hosted by Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, until December 24.

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