PhotoBlogs

From NY Times, Sunday May 25th
Prospecting for Gold Among the Photo Blogs
By SARAH BOXER

Imagine Walker Evans and Nan Goldin rolled together on your computer screen. In the 1930's and 40's Evans secretly photographed anonymous people on the New York City subways. The result was a book titled "Many Are Called." In the 1980's Nan Goldin turned her camera on herself and her friends, spilling the intimate details of her life to complete strangers. She described the resulting book, "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency," as "a diary I let people read." Now thousands of people get onto the Internet everyday to post their photographs, hoping that total strangers will come look at them and comment. They are photo bloggers.Photo blogs are the colorful offspring of blogs, or Web logs, written diaries posted and updated regularly on the Internet. For a half-dozen years people have been posting text blogs to rant and to ponder the events of the day and the dust beneath their feet. Then, sometime in 2000, people started posting photographs to go with the text. The photo blog was born. Now photo blogs often are posted with no text at all. And there are thousands of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/25/arts/design/25BOXE.html