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(selections from) Reenactments of the Recent Past
2009
58 digital prints, 4″x6″ each
Though it presents itself as a navigable present, Google Street View is in fact a disjointed record of our recent past– specifically, the moment in which it drove past the place it recorded. I reenacted those moments, and in the process I (and my photographers) learned the hard way that because of the angle of the Google Street View camera (atop a car) and because of the distorting effects of its lens, it is absolutely impossible to take a picture that matches Street View. Sides of buildings were newly visible while parts of sidewalks had disappeared, the horizon had moved, and vanishing points had morphed to an unnerving degree.
