Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

Mit 69 ganzseitigen, farbigen Fotoabbildungen. 22,5/33,5 cm. 92 ungez. S. Ill. OPappband. Deckel mit kleinem, blaßem Fleckchen, sonst sehr schön. Aus einer Raucherbibliothek.

Bemerkung:

Erste Ausgabe, eins von nur 200 num. Exemplaren, im Impressum von Doug Rickard signiert. * Doug Rickard (1968 ? 2021) was an American artist and photographer. He used technologies such as Google Street View and YouTube to find images, which he then photographed on his computer monitor. His photography has been published in books, exhibited in galleries and held in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Rickard was best known for his book A New American Picture (2010). He was founder and publisher of the website on contemporary photography, American Suburb X, and the website These Americans which published some of his collection of found photographs. For his series A New American Picture, Rickard "wanted to look at the state of the country in these areas where opportunity is non-existent and where everything is broken down", where "the American dream was shattered or impossible to achieve". It is said that this work comments on United States politics, poverty, racial equality and the socioeconomic climate, class; the use of technology in art, privacy, surveillance, and the large quantity of images on the web. Rickard said A New American Picture was about America and not about Google Street View. He began work on A New American Picture in 2008, whilst working a day job in software sales at Cisco Systems. Rickard was at his computer nightly for over three years, taking 10,000 to 15,000 photographs, choosing about 80 for the series. He used a digital camera on a tripod to photograph a dedicated screen that mirrored a second screen that he used to navigate. He digitally manipulated the images to remove Google`s watermark and crop extraneous information, resulting in a wide image from the wide screen computer monitor (vergl. Wikipedia).