Doug Rickard
#82.948842, Detroit, MI. 2009

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Artist Doug Rickard(American, born 1968)American, born 1968

CultureAmerican

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#82.948842, Detroit, MI. 2009
from the series A New American Picture

Date2010, printed 2011

PlaceDetroit, Michigan, United States

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 25 1/4 in. (40 × 64.1 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 25 5/8 in. (41 × 65.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern

Object number2011.747

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionRickard plays off a long tradition of street photography, bringing it squarely into the digital age. He trains his eye on socioeconomically depressed areas of the country through the “Street View” lens of Google Maps. First, Rickard searches out uncanny moments, spectral figures, and intriguing compositions unexpectedly captured by Google’s computer-controlled camera. He then photographs his computer screen and manipulates the appropriated image by removing the Google watermark and emphasizing the muted colors and warped, pixilated perspective. Rickard’s pictures highlight the rapidly growing disparity between the wealth of information and opportunities for connection online and the changing nature of interactions in the real world.
Provenance[Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 2011.
Exhibition History"After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 June - 8 September, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Titled, numbered, signed, and dated verso lower left in pencil: #82.948842, Detroit, MI.2009 / 6/7 / Doug Rickard / 2010/2011

Signed verso lower left in pencil: Doug Rickard
Printed back label with additional marks in ink can be found in the accession file, should the piece be framed: DOUG RICKARD / # 82.948842, Detroit, MI. 2009 / 6/7 / Doug Rickard / 2010/2011

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