How to Photograph the Entire World: The Google Street View Era

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How to Photograph the Entire World: The Google Street View Era

Doug Rickard, Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, 2008 The drum machine arrived in popular music in the late 1970’s. By 1983, only a few years later, after 50,000 years of live human drumming, mainstream…

via it’s never summer: http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/6320235853/google-street-view

Looking at projects based on Google Maps Street View (GSV), particularly large photographs in physical galleries, makes me wonder: Is Street View a camera? Or a repository of source images? Or both?