Street View Portraits

I am an artist living and working in Brooklyn. This Tumbler is a outlet for my obsession with Google Street View and the many hours I spend clicking through digital streets collecting images to use as reference photos for my painting, and the many references the GSV images bring to mind. To learn more about my work please visit www.keightyalexander.com or email me at JimTheCowArt [at] Gmail.com.

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Top to Bottom: Prada Marfa 2005, by Elmgreen and Dragset via Google Street View, February 2013; Marshall Astor - originally posted to Flickr as Elmgreen & Dragset - Prada Marfa - Head on via Wikipedia.

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Top to Bottom: Champ de Mars, Paris France. Google Street View, May 2008; Robert Longo, Men in The Cities series 1980's;  Robert Longo, Untitled from Men in The Cities series, 1979.

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Top to Bottom: Savoy Hill / Savoy Steps, London, England, United Kingdom. Google Street View, July 2008; Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues music video From Don't Look Back produced by Leacock-Pennebaker, 1965.

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Top to Bottom: Rue de Lübeck / Rue de Magdebourg, Paris, France. Google Street View, August 2012; Edward Hopper Summertime, 1943, oil on canvas; Edward Hopper New York Office, 1962, oil on canvas.

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Top to Bottom: 3 shots from Laurel Canyon Boulevard, N. Hollywood, CA. Google Street View, January 2011; William Eggleston, selection of photographs including Eggleston's cover for the Primal Scream album Give out But Don't Give Up; Big Star documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me promotional image.

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Top to Bottom: Jingumae, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. Google Street View, November 2009; Richard Prince, Mission Nurse, 2002; Richard Prince, Runaway Nurse, 2006 (both Ink jet and acrylic on canvas)

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Top to Bottom: Keighty Alexander, Implied Consent, oil and acrylic on canvas 42"x48", 2013;  In front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Google Street View May 2011.  

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Top to Bottom: Breckenridge Ski Resort, Google Street View, February 2011; Luc Tuymans The Architect, 1997.

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"The view, through the door of the railroad car or the automobile windshield, in combination with the speed, has altered the habitual look of things" 

Fernand Léger, 1914

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Top to Bottom; Google Street View, I 97 South, Ferndale Maryland. Google Street View, May, 2012; 2 Google Street View Distortions, taken when moving forward; Internal Combustion Engines, Year of the Glitch by Phillip Stearns, May 2013;  Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind I: The Farewells, 1911; Umberto Boccioni, States of Mind II: Those Who Stay, 1911; Paul Cézanne, Mount Sainte-Victoire view from Lauves, 1904-1906.

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favourite crazy google streetview image vs. bat for lashes what’s a girl to do

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Top: From Jon Rafman's 9eyes Google Street View series.

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Matt McCormick, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, 2001. 

Posted as reference for my post on Malevich, Rothko and Street views in Seattle WA.

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Top to Bottom: South Horton Street, Seattle WA. Google Street View, August 2011; Kazimir Malevich, White on white, 1918; South Horton Street via Google Satellite View; Three Google Street View shoots from around south Seattle; Mark Rothko, Blue and grey, 1962; Mark Rothko  portrait of the artist; Matt McCormick, The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal, 2001.

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Top to Bottom:Venice Beach, CA. Google Street View, May 2008; Jules Olitski, Tin Lizzie Green, 1964; Jules Olitski, Draky, 1966; Cory Arcangel's Photoshop gradient prints, 2011.

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Top to Bottom: Quai Malaquais, Paris, France. Google Street View, May 2008; Ina Jang for The New York Times Magazine, Amy and Nicole. January 2013; Gerhard Richter, Self Portrait, 1996. 

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Top to Bottom: South Atlantic Ocean, Google satellite view, copyright 2013; Yves Klein, IKB Monochrome Paintings, 1957-1962; Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1913; Kasimir Malevich, Rectangle and Circle, 1915;  Vija Celmins, Big Sea I, 1969.

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Top to Bottom: Google Street View, Historic U.S. 66, Oklahoma, United States. January 2008; Don Stinson, The Necessity for Ruins, 1998; Jeff Brouws, Color Drive-In Portfolio, digital pigment prints 1990-1999; Google Street View, U.S. 95 Alternate, Nevada, United States. May, 2009.