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June 10, 2011

 
When does Google Street View become photojournalism?
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From "A Series of Unfortunate Events" discovered on Google Street View.
Photographs © Michael Wolf

Photojournalism was yet-again re-defined earlier this year when Michael Wolf was awarded an honorable mention in the World Press Photo competition for photographs he took of his computer screen.

Wolf spent literally hundreds of hours at his computer, trolling virtually around the world, looking for anything weird or bizarre that had been captured by the ravenous cameras mounted on the top of Google’s special GPS-coordinated Street View camera vans.

When he found an image that fit his project, Wolf mounted his own camera in front of his computer screen, cropped the part of the Google image that he wanted, and made his own picture of that picture. ...

Read more, see more, and watch a video interview with the photographer in
Lens Culture.

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From "A Series of Unfortunate Events" discovered on Google Street View.
Photographs © Michael Wolf