CULTURE
Doug Rickard: NA
Like much of modern history, the Eric Garner decision will eventually be boiled down to a few memorable images—or in this case, unforgettable video footage taken by a bystander. The photographer Doug Rickard’s timely new book, N.A. (D.A.P.), is a catalogue of striking stills he took from hours of YouTube videos uploaded by amateurs in America’s urban underbellies. Some of the images seem criminal, some titillating, some ridiculous, some unbearably intimate. Seen together, they are vivid evidence of the nonstop surveillance culture in which we live. You might think that the police would’ve picked up on that by now.

“Doug Rickard: N.A.” is available now through artbook.com.
December 12, 2014 10:00 AM | by Fan Zhong
Doug Rickard
From the series N.A.
VHDgf, 2013
© Doug Rickard, Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York