Doug Rickard: A New American Picture
Presented in the exhibition HERE.
Pier 24 Photography / May 23rd - December 16th, 2011
Doug Rickard
A New American Picture
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 6:30-8:00pm
Doug Rickard will discuss his most recent series, A New American Picture, which consists of color photographs of American street scenes, located using the internet tool 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. Collectively, these images present a startling photographic portrait of the socially disenfranchised, providing deeply affecting evidence of the American Dream inverted.
The Photographers Lecture Series
School at ICP, 1114 Avenue of the Americas
February 1–April 18
February 8: Doug Rickard‘s series A New American Picture explores the breakdown of the American Dream. Using Google Street View, Rickard virtually explores the American landscape, searching for street scenes that reflect the reality of today’s economic peril and social disenfranchisement within America’s “invisible” communities. Rickard is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery and has exhibited internationally.