Award to photos taken from Google Street View cause stir

A submission by German artist and photographer Michael Wolf -grainy photographs taken from Google Street View -garnered an honourable mention in the contemporary issues category of the prestigious World Press Photo competition. The award has caused quite a stir in the news photography community. Wolf won first place in the World Press Photo competition in 2005 and 2010 and is acknowledged this year for the photographs titled A Series of Unfortunate Events. The photos are slices of incidental moments in time. Wolf secured his camera to a tripod to zoom into a virtual image to take a "picture of a picture." The subjects and locations are anonymous, and context is practically non-existent, all of which ignore basic elements of journalism.

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