TECHONOMY: “Is Curating as Good as Photographing? Digital Camera Technology Is Transforming an Art” (2012)

By Eugene Reznik, Techonomy, September 2012 Aperture Foundation sparked one of the longest, liveliest, and most viral comment threads in the organization’s online history recently when it announced the upcoming publication of Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture. The hardcover collection of “street-photography,” originally published in 2010 and being re-released by Aperture with an additional […]

VILLAGE VOICE: “The Google Riis” (2012)

Doug Rickard: ‘A New American Picture’, November 2012 The primary photographer behind the portraits of urban desolation in this oddly affecting show is a robot—the indifferent, computer-controlled spherical camera mounted on Google’s Street View cars. Although designed to document buildings and landmarks for navigational purposes, the eyeball-like machines are also taking snapshots of life at […]

AHORN MAGAZINE: “Doug Rickard – A New American Picture”

By Sebastian Arthur Hau, Ahorn Magazine There is a certain set of sentences by John Gossage, in reply to Thomas Weski, then curator of the exhibition « There and Gone », in Hannover, Germany, that is stuck in my mind. I know that the circle of Gossage fans love the book if they can get […]

TIME: “Street View and Beyond: Google’s Influence on Photography”

When Google Street View started as an experiment in 2007, the company sent SUVs equipped with cameras, GPS and lasers to collect its first pictures. The idea of capturing images of the entire world from the perspective of the street was revolutionary, if not a little insane. Now, five years later, Google has recorded 360-degree […]

5B4: “A New American Picture by Doug Rickard” (2010)

By Jeff Ladd, 5B4, November 2010 The older notions of photographers physically exploring their world may have in some ways come to pass. The Egglestons, Shores, Levitts, Winogrands ventured out with perhaps only the loosest intentions or framework of a “project” and allowed the world to provide. It is common now for artists to conceive […]

THE NEW YORKER: “Doug Rickard’s Street View” (2012)

By Rachel Klapheke, The New Yorker, October 26, 2012 Early in 2009, the photographer Doug Rickard, the artist behind “American Suburb X” and “These Americans,” became immersed in the online world of Google Street View. His virtual travels led him to some of the most economically depressed areas of the country. “All of us have a […]

ART INFO: “Doug Rickard at Yossi Milo” (2012)

IN THE AIR Art News & Gossip In the Air – Art+Auction’s Gossip Column OCTOBER 5, 2012, 7:45 AM See Doug Rickard’s Google Street View-Inspired Art at Aperture and Yossi Milo In a strikingly postmodern departure from the gritty tradition of street photography (where photographers actually go out in the streets to photograph), Doug Rickard’s “A […]

COOL HUNTING: “A New American Picture”

A New American Picture Photographer Doug Rickard travels the backroads of America on Google Street View by Perrin Drumm in Culture on 07 August 2012 If photographer Doug Rickard had been able to get away from his daily life and go on the great American road trip like he wanted to, he might never have created the subtly powerful, deeply moving […]

SF CHRONICLE: “Rickard at Stephen Wirtz” (2011)

By Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle, June 2011 A glum “American Picture”: San Jose native Doug Rickard leads a growing number of photographers gleaning material from Google street views, the digital age’s extension of street photography. The title of his show at Wirtz, “A New American Picture,” sounds like something out of the Cold War decades, […]