Category Archives: Interview

VICE: Doug Rickard Documents America Through Recreated Snippets of YouTube Videos

Photographer Doug Rickard is probably most famous for his series A New American Picture, in which he recreated images from Google Street View, resulting in a startlingly portrayal of the overlooked, often bleak, backroads of our American landscape. His latest project, N.A., follows a similar theme—Rickard spent hours trawling amateur videos in the depths of […]

PBS NEWS HOUR: “‘Street Art’ Using Google Maps” (2012)

Photographer Doug Rickard sees artistic possibility in the images of people captured in the photographic drive-bys that make up Google Street View. He has travelled thousands of virtual miles, looking for potential photographs in Google’s maps that have more than just utilitarian purpose. KQED’s Scott Shafer reports.

BOOM CALIFORNIA: “Screen Captures – Americans on Google Street” (2012)

  “I am the son of an evangelical preacher that had a church in largely white, affluent Los Gatos in the eighties that had grown over twenty-five years from 100 or so members to over 6,000. My father was very conservative, and his view was our Christian nation had been specifically blessed by God to […]

AFTERALL JOURNAL: “Artist at Work – Doug Rickard” (2012)

#41.779976, Chicago, IL. 2007, 2011    “In the way that these pictures had been made by machines, I perceived a certain sort of menace, a natural disrespect – the height of the camera, the blurred out faces, the imperfections, all of these things heightened the atmosphere. I was looking for a broken America, the inverse […]

PIER 24: “Doug Rickard – A New American Picture” (2012)

Doug Rickard: A New American Picture Presented in the Pier 24 Photography exhibition HERE. May 23 – January 31, 2012 Utilizing the comprehensive image archive Google Street View for his series A New American Picture, photographer Doug Rickard virtually drives the unseen and overlooked roads of America, to find bleak places that are forgotten, economically […]

THE NEW SCHOOL: “New Frontiers with Joshua Chuang and Doug Rickard”

The Photographic Universe II brings together a range of leading practitioners, scientists, theoreticians, historians, and philosophers to consider and reflect on current discussions in photography at a pivotal moment in its history. The unique format of the conference will consist of one-on-one conversations between two individuals from disparate professional and research backgrounds. The conference will […]

SLATE: “A Portrait of American Life on Google Street View”

  By David Roseberg, for Slate Doug Rickard hasn’t yet played GeoGuessr, but he’s fairly certain he would do really well identifying American city scenes. Rickard spent four years combing through Google Street View exploring images of cities either forgotten or symbolic of economic collapse to produce the series “A New American Picture,” one of the most […]

SF GOV TV: “Indoor Clouds, Google Street View and Dutch Masterworks” (2013)

The SFAC Galleries brings together the de Young Museum’s special exhibition Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis assistant curator Melissa Buron of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and renowned photographer Doug Rickard to expand the dialogue around the exhibited works of Dutch installation artist Berndnaut Smilde, who will be […]