This is a photo from a new project idea. I've been thinking a lot lately about how technology alters our perception(s) of things, especially "well-known" things; particularly famous paintings and other works of art. Everyone knows what the Mona Lisa looks like, right? It's so documented that you don't need to travel to the Louvre to see it, you can just Google it; it's so parodied and copied and appropriated that, if you actually didn't know what the Mona Lisa looked like, you would have a hard time figuring out which image-search-result was the original painting and which were copies, etc.
^This is a screen shot of just page one of the images that come up on Google for 'Mona Lisa'
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