![]() 10 at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in Chelsea. Henner’s first solo show in New York, which opens on Sept. Take one series that will be shown in “Semi-Automatic,” Mr. Henner, who is 39, underscores the way viewers are increasingly conditioned to see the world at a surveillance camera’s remove. While his subject matter may have resonances of what Cornell Capa considered “concerned photography” - a reference to documentary photographers who use their cameras to inform and change the world - Mr. Seen in wall-size photographs, these mile-wide parcels of earth become specimens of the human imprint on the global landscape, presented with forensic clarity. Henner takes a lofty view of what he sees as the multifarious activities of man across the planet, swooping down on the tracks of government or industry - United States military sites, say, or feedlots or pump jacks on oil wells. ![]() He is one of a growing number of artists making savvy use of the surveillance capabilities of satellite imaging and Google Street View in work that reflects the way the Internet age has altered our visual experience. Henner embraces that very absurdity for his own image-making. ![]() “There’s an absurdity to living in an age when everything is photographed,” Mishka Henner, a Belgian-born artist, said recently from his home in Manchester, England, emphasizing, in particular, that every square inch of the earth seems to have been photographed and all of it is accessible online - including some of the world’s most secret places. ![]()
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