Photographer Robbie Cooper's Alter Ego explores personal and social identities being shaped in the metaverse at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Portraits of online gamers and virtual-world participants from America, Asia and Europe are paired with images of their avatars, with profiles of their real-world and virtual characters. The book is both an entertainment and a serious look at a phenomenon that is shaping the future of human interaction. With an introduction by Julian Dibbell and interviews and a glossary by Tracy Spaight.
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Robbie Cooper was born in 1969 in London and studied photography at Bournemouth College of Art. He won the Ian Parry scholarship in 1992 for his work in Somalia and has been been widely published, including in Liberation, The Sunday Times Magazine, Geo, GQ and Esquire. His work has been exhibited at galleries in London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin and Paris.
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Alter Ego,
This review is from: Alter Ego: Avatars and their creators (Hardcover)
"Alter Ego" is a clever, fascinating idea... presented very well with Cooper's photographs and the short bios by Spaight. It's an awesome coffee table type of book that my friends always pick up first. It sometimes surprises me that there are still a lot of people who are totally unaware of the virtual world phenomenon/culture, so this book is a eye-opening introduction to all that.
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Coffee table book for a gamer or digital culture scholar!,
By Jill Walker Rettberg (Bergen, Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Alter Ego: Avatars and their creators (Hardcover)
What fun this book is! The front cover is a "hologram" just like on the covers of some of the books I had as a kid in the seventies, where moving your head a little morphs the photo of two World of Warcraft avatars into a photo of the couple who play them. The entire book is devoted to photos of avatars alongside their players, with brief facts given about each player and avatar. A perfect coffee table book for a gamer or digital culture scholar!
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Gamers, Blood Elves Mug for the Camera,
By Samuel Claiborn "Ready Game Fire! / AZNightBu... (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Alter Ego: Avatars and their creators (Hardcover)
Upon first discovering 'Alter Ego,' it's difficult avoid the feeling that you should have thought of the idea first: a book that pairs photos of people with their images of their avatars. It's not condescending, exploitative or academic--Cooper's images are presented factually, at face value and show that MMO gamers cannot be classified as geeks or otherwise. In fact, the diversity of subjects, both real and in-game, is the book's most enjoyable aspect. 'Alter Ego' may not attempt to engage the somewhat ridiculous debate regarding games as art, but it's depictions of elaborate avatars does prove definitively that gamers can be artists.
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