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fotolog.book
A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age
Edited by Andrew Long Text contributions by Nick Currie
Over 1,000 of the best images selected from the online photo journals found on one of the fastest growing
and liveliest digital communities: fotolog
With digital cameras and camera phones, millions of people are
obsessively documenting their daily lives.The fotolog phenomenon
transcends national borders, language barriers, and age gaps. From
hotblooded (and sometimes hot-headed) teenagers in Brazil to cool
silver surfers in Iceland, doctors, lawyers, dentists, mothers-to-be,
and great-grandfathers, all these people have one thing in common:
they communicate with images.
Organized into themes with quotes and commentaries, this book guides us to the best of the millions of
images and multitudes of words found in the fotolog archives.
fotolog.book shows us how we see our world, rather than images that
newspapers deem newsworthy, images that marketers hope will be
money-making or galleries judge to be Art with a capital A. It shows
us what the fresh eyes of hundreds of ordinary men and women find
beautiful, funny, moving, or extraordinary.
Andrew Long lives in Brooklyn. For many years he was a photography
reviewer and editor at The New Yorker. His writings have also
been published in Departures magazine and on salon.com. Nick Currie
is a writer and musician. Born in Scotland, he currently divides his
time between Berlin and Japan. His weblog Click Opera has become
a popular site for those interested in design, music, new media,
photography, and contemporary culture.
Fotolog is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc.
ISBN 0-500-51251-5
· 9" x 93/4"
· over 1000 color illustrations · 344 pages · PHOTOGRAPHY
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