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Doug Rickard: A New American Picture Hardcover – September 30, 2012

by Erin O'Toole (Interviewer), Doug Rickard (Photographer), David Campany (Contributor)

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Doug Rickard's "A New American Picture" offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditional bounds of the genre, Rickard's methodology is anything but conventional. All of the images are appropriated from Google Street View; over a period of two years, Rickard took advantage of the technology platform's comprehensive image archive to virtually drive the unseen and overlooked roads of America--bleak places that are forgotten, economically devastated and abandoned. With an informed and careful eye, Rickard finds and decodes these previously photographed scenes of urban and rural decay. He rephotographs the machine-made images as they appear on his computer screen, framing and freeing them from their technological origins. As Geoff Dyer has commented on the work, "It was William Eggleston who coined the phrase 'photographing democratically, ' but Rickard has used Google's indiscriminate omniscience to radically extend this enterprise--technologically, politically and aesthetically." A limited-edition monograph of "A New American Picture" was published by White Press/Schaden in 2010; upon publication, it was named a best book of that year by "Photo-Eye" magazine, and quickly went out of print. This edition brings Rickard's provocative series, including more than 30 new images, to a wider audience.
Doug Rickard (born 1968) studied American history and sociology at University of California, San Diego. He is the founder of American Suburb X (www.americansuburbx.com) and These Americans (www.theseamericans.com), aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. "A New American Picture" was included in the annual "New Photography" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2011.

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144 pages
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English
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Aperture
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September 30, 2012
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10.1 x 0.8 x 12.8 inches
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1597112194
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978-1597112192
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Lined with stores closed down long ago, sad-looking homes and deserted properties they are America's 'forgotten streets'. But one artist is forcing people to take a closer look at the often ignored places hit with financial struggles over the years. Using Google Street View, Doug Rickard was able to capture images from states all over the U.S including Michigan, California, Arkansas and New Jersey - without ever leaving his own home.--Lydia Warren"Daily Mail Online" (06/03/2012)

His large prints of the Google Street View images have an unnatural digitized look with angles distorted by this new mobile technology. At the same time, they're eerily invasive, exuding a ghostly intimacy. His images underscore the way we are increasingly conditioned to see the world-at a surveillance camera's remove.--Philip Gefter"Departures" (05/01/2015)

About the Author

Doug Rickard studied U.S. history and sociology at UC San Diego. He is the founder of American Suburb X and These Americans, aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. In 2011, A New American Picture was included in the annual New Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. A solo exhibition is planned for fall 2012 at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York.

Historian David Campany is one of the best-known and most accessible writers on photography. He has published several books, among them Handful of Dust (2015), The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip (Aperture, 2014), Walker Evans: The Magazine Work (2013), and Photography and Cinema (2008). He contributes regularly to a range of publications, including Aperture and Oxford Art Journal.

Erin O'Toole studied drawing and engraving in college.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Aperture; First Thus edition (September 30, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1597112194
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597112192
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.95 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.1 x 0.8 x 12.8 inches

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david lincoln brooks

Gorgeous modern American photographs.... but with an old-school Ashcan/Hopper-esque vibe.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2013

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Doug Rickard is a young photographer who has done something that perhaps any of us could've done... yet he ingeniously did it first and most compellingly and beautifully: He lifted some street-level photographs from GOOGLE EARTH of various neighborhoods within the USA... but specifically sought out some of America's most poverty-stricken urban and rural neighborhoods. Striking, compelling, astonishing, heartbreaking images of America's humblest people, in their native environment... seemingly getting by on almost nothing at all, yet not appearing at all sorry for themselves. In this muckraking mood, Rickard's images owe much to the so-called "Ashcan School" of the early 1900's, others seem Hopper-esque, others look like oneiric riffs on Norman Rockwell, and most of them have a clear, yet somehow dreamlike appearance of, say, the 1970's canvases of the Photorealists. Rickard has a superb, unflinching eye, and he has found a novel, striking, unforgettable way of showing it. Highly recommended. While starkly beautiful, these are not "feel-good" pictures by any stretch: they will probably give you the feeling they give me: a gnawing, hollow, ghostly--- sometimes even devastating-- feeling about the vast inequities in American society.

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Hilmar

Had to read better, interesting idea (or so I thought...), mediocre print

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2012

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Let's start on the less subjective side:

I do not like the print quality. Whether you like the pictures or not, this is not a high quality print. Mediocre paper, "mweh" image quality. Image quality actually sucks, but I guess it's part of the "concept". Binding is OK, but I had expected a lot more from an Aperture publication. I own Rinko Kawauchi: Illuminance , same price, beautiful prints on heavy paper stock. Disappointed with the overall quality of the book.

Then on the subjective area:

This is my mistake, but I was under the impression the author was a photographer who found Google street view images of poverty and went to the place to take the actual pictures. This is not the case, this is just a collection of street view screen caps. I guess some call it a "good concept" or "great art", but I consider myself a sucker that didn't read the marketing message properly.

I think art is like any area, subject to marketing. I do not see added value or anything artistic in this work. I see a "lazy" effort polished up with nice concept-blahblah. I fell for it and feel stupid for it.

The images themselves:

Outside of the fact that many images are blocky and grainy in the ugly-jpg-compression way, it gives an interesting view on poverty in the US.

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William J. Scharf

Photography or editing?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2012

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Very controversial book and a hot topic in photography. But my question is: Is this photography or editing. Ricard didn't take the photographs he selected them from Google. He makes no bones about that. But is he a photographer or an editor or a curator? If he found them in an abandoned file box somewhere and published them would he get credit as the photographer? I think it's brilliant what he accomplished but for me, it raises more questions than it answers. What next? As for the book itself: the quality is below average, typical Aperture when compared to Steidl. The original limited edition is much better but long gone.

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Johan Brink

A new way of looking at America

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 4, 2014

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Looking at photographers like Stephen Shore Doug Richard took a trip to the poorest places in America in our time, but this time with a little help of Goole Street view. A new way of taking a closer look at America of today.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 3, 2015

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I appreciate for that the product was delivered on time but the cover was broken.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2013

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Nice work some beautiful finds in the the world of google street view. A snap shots of quite a narrow but more hidden side of America.

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Su Do Nim

These screen grabs are beautiful. Some

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2014

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These screen grabs are beautiful. Some, like the cover shot, look like moody Hopper paintings, and that's a good thing.

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Dt65

Davvero interessante

Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on August 18, 2017

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Da Walker Evans a Stephens Shore, da Eggleston a Jacob Holdt questo è un altro importante libro (tra l'altro contemporaneo) della grande tradizione fotografica americana.

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eduardo perez ortiz

Buen estado

Reviewed in Spain 🇪🇸 on December 24, 2019

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Buen libro en buen estado, muchas gracias. llegó antes de lo previsto

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margaux bunel

Super relation client!

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on January 16, 2021