Some thoughts on Google Street View and World Press Photo | dvafoto

The arguments against the work, or at least against awarding them in the World Press contest, are familiar to anyone who’s followed 20th century art (Duchamp’s Readymades, Warhol’s Brillo Box, Richard Prince, et al) but now it’s photojournalism on the block. The thrust of these arguments can be boiled down to these: He didn’t take the pictures, Google did.

Link: Some thoughts on Google Street View and World Press Photo | dvafoto