Doug Rickard A New American Picture

Link: Doug Rickard A New American Picture | Le Journal de la Photographie

Rickard combines several images captured by Google Street View into a single composition. Each image—which the artist does not describe as photography, in the conviction that the work’s concern is equally social and aesthetic—incorporates blurred silhouettes. The stretched lines of bodies wandering the deserted streets, the codified attire, all contribute to this portrait of America devastated by the recession