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Doug Rickard: N.A.

Doug Rickard: N.A.

Rickard, Doug
Redman, Z.
Garlid, Ann

Hardcover

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ISBN10: 193892262X
ISBN13: 9781938922626
Publisher: Verlag Kettler & D A P
Published: Dec 31 2014
Pages: 128
Weight: 2.77
Height: 0.80 Width: 9.40 Depth: 12.60
Language: English

Published with Verlag Kettler.

For the last three years, photographer Doug Rickard has been immersed in YouTube videos uploaded by Americans from their cellphones. These videos, documenting a dizzying array of activities, from seemingly criminal or semilegal acts to comic antics, allowed Rickard to witness scenarios he otherwise would never have seen-right from the hands and eyes of other people, he writes, hijacking their own device to give me very special views and intimate situations. Reveling in this vicariousness, he found that he could be riding in a car full of teens through Detroit at night with a camera phone hanging out the window ... or witnessing, from their own lens, someone who is paying a drug addict to dance for a dollar to later get 'View, ' 'Comments' and 'Likes' on YouTube. Rickard then selected and appropriated specific images by pausing the footage and advancing through it second by second. The resulting volume expands on his previous and critically lauded monograph A New American Picture, offering a darker and more dynamic portrait of America's urban underbelly, and engaging with themes of race, politics, technology, surveillance and our cultural shift toward an ever-present camera. Rickard explains the title: [It] has always been 'N.A., ' coming for 'National Anthem' ... it also could be interpreted to mean 'Not Applicable, ' a common statistical check box on government forms here in the US, [or] 'North America.' Visceral and intense, this volume offers an extraordinary inventory of America today.

Doug Rickard (born 1968) studied history and sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founder of American Suburb X (www.americansuburbx.com) and These Americans (www.theseamericans.com), aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. His previous monograph, A New American Picture (2010, 2012), which offered a view of America through Google Street View, was widely acclaimed, and (in its first edition by White-Press, Helge Schlaghecke, 2010) was voted best book of 2010 by Photo-Eye magazine and is reproduced on the last spread of Phaidon's The Photobook Vol. III by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger.

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