Without further ado, here are 36 weird photos captured on Google Street View from Jon Rafman’s collection with a couple of our own finds. Street View began in 2007 as a far-fetched idea to create a 360-degree map of the world. To do that, search for a specific place or. On mobile devices, try the Google Street View app for iOS or Android. Or, go to Google Maps, enter an address, and select the Pegman to bring up Street View imagery. In order to dive into the past on Google Maps, you first have to get your bearings in the present. The quickest way: Go to Instant Street View or ShowMyStreet and enter a locations name or address.
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It was tempting to see the images as a neutral and privileged representation of reality-as though the Street Views, wrenched from any social context other than geospatial contiguity, were able to perform true docu-photography, capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intentions.” How to look at past images on Google Maps Street View. “With its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities or agendas of a human photographer. “The world captured by Google appears to be more truthful and more transparent because of the weight accorded to external reality, the perception of a neutral, unbiased recording, and even the vastness of the project,” said Jon in his interview to Art Fag City.
And in doing so, chances for Google street funny photos are aplenty. The original images were taken by an army of Google’s hybrid electric automobiles, each one equipped with nine cameras on a single pole trying to photograph every highway and byway in the world. The image capture date will be instantly displayed in the status bar as shown in the screenshot below. To do this, head to a web browser on a computer (This won’t work on a smartphone.). Next, drag the yellow Pegman to any area on the Google Map to switch from aerial to street view. Montreal based artist Jon Rafman isn’t the original photographer, but instead, he explores the Street View in Google Maps and takes screenshots of the most unusual and funny photos. Google will refresh its Street View data every few years in many areas, and you can see older Street View imagery using the desktop version of Google Maps.
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