fotolog®.book
A Global Snapshot for the Digital Age
Edited by Andrew Long
Texts by Nick Currie
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| ‘The stunning, the vast, the minute, the personal, the bizarre, the hilarious and the moving are all here. Entirely free of elitism or coffee-table snobbery, this venture is true creative democracy and is a beautiful thing’ | | – The Big Issue |
| 'A thousand little things to make you smile.' | | i-D Magazine |
| ‘The ideal book … spend hours trawling through the pages getting lost in each picture and caption’ | | – Digital Photographer Magazine |
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®.com.
All over the world, millions of people are obsessively documenting their daily lives on Fotolog®, a 21st-century phenomenon that transcends national borders, language barriers and age gaps. This book guides us to the best of the 1 billion images and multitude of words buried in the digital archives of Fotolog®.
Organized into themes with quotes and commentaries, and selected by a small group of photobloggers – insiders who know where to find the most stunning images, the strangest sights, the most fascinating comments – this book shows us what the fresh eyes of hundreds of ordinary men and women find beautiful, funny, moving or bizarre.
It is an extraordinary document of and for our times.
Andrew Long was a photography reviewer and editor at
The New Yorker for many years. He is an obsessive photoblogger and carries his digital camera everywhere.
Nick Currie is a writer and well-travelled musician. His weblog Click Opera has become a daily stop on the internet for those interested in contemporary culture.
Fotolog® is a registered trademark of Fotolog, Inc.
The Fotolog® trademark is used by Thames & Hudson Ltd under licence from Fotolog, Inc.
Customers in the USA can order this book from our
Also of interest:
Digital Photography: Special Effects
reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow
Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers
Deep Sites: Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Web Design
At the Edge of Art
Tales from a Globalizing World
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500512515 | | ISBN-13 978-0500512517 | | | | 23.5 x 22.0 cm | | PLC (no jacket) | | 344pp | | 1001 illustrations, 1001 in colour | | First published 2006 | | | | £19.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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