13 Gorgeous Works Of Art Made From Google Maps Images

 

Can photographs taken by satellites be considered art?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They can in the capable hands of Jenny Odell, a San Francisco-based artist who collects Google Maps images of inanimate structures and arranges them on blank backgrounds.

 

At first glance, Odell's Satellite Collections merely appear to be snapshots of similar objects placed together.

 

But looking more critically, what she creates is undeniably human. She chooses man-made objects that are indicative of our presence on the planet — from pools to power plants — and arranges them as though they were specimens and she was an "alien anthropologist" sent down to catalogue our existence.

 

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