Screendump

A conversation on VIRTUAL STROLLS and PHOTOGRAPHY by Suzan Geldhoff & Karin Krijgsman

A screenshot of GSV used as a “press” photo, as seen on the website of Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant (and updated later by a more conventional photograph, as you can see by clicking the link).

A screenshot of GSV used as a “press” photo, as seen on the website of Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant (and updated later by a more conventional photograph, as you can see by clicking the link).

Google Street View is now also mapping the Amazon Basin.

As a camera, GSV is used by a photographer to rotate around, frame, and click to grab an image. The images that we see on the screen are raw data, gathered by the drivers; these images do not become photographs until a photographer frames them.
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On GSV, even familiar places look a bit alien. Even if the multi-lens camera simulates human field of vision, it feels like a 1970’s bee invasion movie. Combined with the facial blurring (which looks like motion blur of faces in 19th century photographs), figures in a GSV landscape mimic the horror movie shot of zombies approaching on the horizon. http://bremser.tumblr.com/post/6320235853/google-street-view