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San Francisco Art Institute (Main Campus)

March 13 - March 13, 2013

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800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133
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Lecture Doug Rickard, #82.948842, Detroit, MI. 2009, 2010 Courtesy of Stephen Wirtz Gallery
Doug Rickard’s work evokes provocative connections to a strong tradition of American photography masters, with knowing references to Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. He both follows and dramatically advances that tradition, with a documentary strategy that acknowledges an increasingly technological world—a world in which a camera mounted on a car can produce moving evidence of the people and places it is leaving behind. Rickard’s discovery of Google Street View as a vehicle for making photography—a method explored in his recent body of work A New American Picture—was informed by his experimentation with re-photographing and arranging satellite images, amateur snapshots, and commercial and surveillance photographs. This event is FREE and open to the public, but space is limited, and advance registration is recommended: http://sfaidougrickard-eac2.eventbrite.com/ Artist Bio Rickard was born in San Jose, California, in 1968, and studied U.S. History and Sociology at UC San Diego. He is the founder of American Suburb X and These Americans, aggregating websites for essays on contemporary photography and historical photographic archives. Rickard has exhibited at the MoMA; New York; Yossi Milo Gallery, New York; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, among others. www.dougrickard.com