fotolog.book: A Global Snapshot for the Digital Ag

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.