fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age (Hardcover)

~ Nick Currie (Author), Andrew Long (Editor)

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Product Description

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. Over 1000 color illustrations.

fotolog™ is a registered trademark of fotolog, Inc.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 344 pages
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson; 1 edition (April 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0500512515
• ISBN-13: 978-0500512517
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,159,243 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book, August 21, 2007

By	Florida_guy99 (Orlando, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

Fotolog being such a great library for great photos, it was expected that the book wouldn't be too different. Great book ! The kind of book you want to have laying around for everyone to look at and be amazed at how many beautiful photos are taken by regular people with no professional experience/knowledge/technique...