Three Tourism Artists

For this entry I thought of an artist I really enjoy the work of named Doug Rickard and then for my other artists decided to talk about ones that also use Google Earth as a medium just as we did for our Tourism projects.

Doug Rickard
A New American Picture
Rickard uses GSV photographs to take viewers into the impoverished areas of Detroit, Memphis, New Orleans and Oakland from all sorts of vantage points.

Another artist that did a great job using Google Earth is Tom Jenkins. In this piece "Address is Aproximate" we follow a lonely desk toy on his three minute cross country trip through GSV imagery.  This work is also a great example of stop motion animation, which I'm a big sucker for so I had to include it. Hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

http://vimeo.com/32397612

To see the video simply click on this link and watch it on Vimeo.com, I had some trouble embedding it on here.

Mishka Henner 

No Man's Land

My last tourism artist  created a very powerful social commentary with the help of Google Earth.  His No Man's Land series is made up of GSV imagery of roadside prostitutes in rural Italy. Henner decided to publish his book of these photos when he discovered online communities that use Street View to share information about the locations of sex workers – one of the darker uses of GSV.

(Not really sure what's happening here...)