Day: August 12, 2013

Animation of Imagery Sourced from Google Earth Extends Dutch Landscape Tradition
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Animation of Imagery Sourced from Google Earth Extends Dutch Landscape Tradition

Best known for bird’s-eye-view landscape photography, Gerco de Ruijter (Dutch, b. Vianen, 1961; lives and works in Rotterdam) mined Google Earth for the images he montaged into his stop-frame animation “CROPS” (2012). The hypnotic four-minute video work opens in the Hirshhorn’s Black Box space Aug. 12. De Ruijter’s still photography […]