By now maybe we've all seen Jon Rafman's photo-series blog 9-Eyes, compiled from his undoubtedly many, many hours of combing through Google Street View. When looking at some of the images, it's hard to imagine their not being staged and set.
Some are funny, absurd, questionable. Some are weird, some are vacant, some are sort of bland and obvious. Some are visual comments on life as we know it, encapsulating everything in a flash moment that we're ashamed of or afraid to look at. Many show us the sorry state of things. Or the blissful state of things. Whichever. A lot of them terrify me. And some of them are just aesthetically and compositionally beautiful no matter what.
Whatever they are, Rafman is another patient mind reminding us that the beauty is still in the everyday, the mundane.
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