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<em><a href="http://www.penelopeumbrico.net/" target="_blank">Penelope Umbrico</a>, Detail of “541,795 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 1/26/06” (2006). Courtesy <a href="http://www.aperture.org/" target="_blank">Aperture Foundation</a> and <a href="http://www.markmooregallery.com/" target="_blank">Mark Moore Gallery</a>, Los Angeles.</em> <br><br> “I started the project ‘Suns from Sunsets from Flickr’ in 2006, when, looking for the most photographed subject, I searched the photo-sharing Web site Flickr and found that ‘sunsets’ were most present (541,795 in 2006). I thought it peculiar that the sun …. is now subsumed by the Internet.”<br><br>(From Umbrico’s artist statement.)
The New Yorker’s Tech Issue hits newsstands this week, and it got me interested in photographic projects that are anchored in various technologies, from antiquated processes to Internet crowd-sourcing. Here’s a selection of technology-based works that I find myself returning to, accompanied by text from the artists.