12.30: Still in the Saatchi Gallery and down a floor to discover a google image exhibition by Jon Rafman. A series of screen captures from Google street view; this was an unexpectedly excellent exhibition. You would think that Google street images would be a series or boring roads, but the excellence of it is that is has captured moments in time that could easily have been a professional photographer, shots that people maybe couldn't take without stamping their opinion on the situation.
"With its supposedly neutral gaze, the Street View photography had a spontaneous quality unspoiled by the sensitivities of agendas of a human photographer...capturing fragments of reality stripped of all cultural intention." Jon Rafman
Below are a few snapshots of the images, there was a wide variety to see, I recommend going to have a look yourself.
A baby captured escaping from a Gucci store, obviously the mother was busy in the shop!
The chances of capturing a butterfly in the middle of a photograph, how often have you tried and you never get one this good!
A spontaneous moment of water spiralling.
An unsettling image to look at, at a scene of an accident.
I don't think she knew she was on camera, but a beautifully composed photograph.
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