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The Project
Discovery in a sea of images
Street Lens aims to create community discovery by finding little nuggets of interest and reshaping footage that was originally documentation of 3D space into artistically composed images.
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Community discovery
in a sea of images.
Reshaping Street View documentation
into artistically composed images.
Featured Captures
Ilford Hp 5 Plus 400
Wolf Creek, Utah, United States
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About the project
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Inspiration
A lineage of Street View artists
This project was inspired by a lineage of artists who saw something more in Google's automated archive. Jon Rafman's Nine Eyes of Google Street View, Doug Rickard's A New American Picture, Michael Wolf's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Jacqui Kenny's The Agoraphobic Traveller. Each finding meaning in imagery that was never meant to be art.
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The Idea
Photographer meets world, viewer meets photographer
Street Lens attempts to create global connections by exposing people to parts of the world they may never have a chance to visit in reality. It then offers tools to capture their view of the location. By allowing people to explore the locations where images were composed, Street Lens creates a direct connection between the original eye of the capturer and the viewer.
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