One year ago, I started collecting screen captures of Google Street Views from a range of Street View blogs and through my own hunting. This essay illustrates how my Street View collections reflect the excitement of exploring this new, virtual world.

Jon Rafman’s “The Nine Eyes of Google Street View.”

(photo: Rue de la Huchette, Paris, France. “The ‘indifferent’ gaze countered even the sentimentality of the ubiquitous embracing Parisian couple of French street-photography.”)