There are other people out there doing work about Google -- this one, an artist, Jon Rafman, is looking for more than the silly moments like what can be found here. Rafman uses Google Street View to capture a variety of subjects which can be categorized into common photographic archetypes. But that doesn't make his work mundane...au contraire...an interesting image is always interesting despite its provenance. The irony is that google, entirely passive regarding the capture of the images, becomes a kind of receptacle for exhibitionists. In a sense, subjects become the authors, or at the very least, collaborators. The rest of the images fall into another category entirely, the complete accident -- the ultimate decisive moment. Like the one below:
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