Google Street View Photographer
Now the inhabitants of Paris can find themselves in Michael Wolf’s artistic take on the Google mapping project. And he’s retrieved some lovely moments of people and things caught for a single arbitrary moment on a particular day in the city.
By way of an explantion of his intentions with the Paris Street View project, thingsmagazine offers this quote from Wolf: “The problem is that compared to Asia, Paris is a stagnant city – very little has changed architecturally since Atget’s times, and the cliches are a nightmare to get out from under of. Strangely enough, it was Google Street View which enabled me to take any photos at all of Paris.
“I spent weeks going through the city on my monitor, street by street, looking into windows, discovering reflections, searching out interesting juxtapositions, topologies, trying various crops/styles (Frank, Doisneau, Ruscha, and so on). The lack of a third dimension wore me down at times, but it was quite an interesting journey.”
Check out some more of his beautiful pictures after the jump.
Street with a view
Google maps now in Denmark
Google Alphabet
Girls Vs. Boys
If you ever go to Paris
[...] out the post about artist Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett using the Google car to make a parade or the post about Michael Wolf, who’s been spotting pictures in paris via Google Maps or at last, Rhett Dashwood who uses Google Earth to find alphabets in the ground. var [...]