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All the People on Google Earth
digital prints
2011

Thus Google Earth's allure derives not only from its capacity for high-resolution ... but also from high-dissolution.
--Paul Kingsbury and John Paul Jones III, "Walter Benjamin's Dionysian Adventures on Google Earth"

All the People on Google Earth is an ongoing series of modified snapshots of crowds I find on Google Earth, where everything but the people (and their attendant blankets, umbrellas, dogs, etc.) has been removed. Given the current limitations of resolution on Google Earth, I can only use imagery from the handful of places where angled imagery is available at the most zoomed-in level. The angle reveals each person's shadow, which is often the only thing that identifies a particular shape as a person at all. Occasionally we may see a leg thrust out in the act of walking; there are suggestions of tennis-playing movements. Otherwise the people exist on the very limit of the recognizable, dissolved into pixels.

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