iDubai
27 Jan
Interesting… I found this in my Amazon recommendations, one of the only times I’ve seen anything I’m actually interested in and hadn’t heard of already.
What Parisian shopping arcades were to the nineteenth century and capitalism, Dubai’s luxurious mega-malls are to the new millennium and late capitalism. The Baudelairean flaneur, who patrolled the avenues as a detached observer, today is replaced by the phoneur, a wired wanderer who uses a cell phone to text, call, Web-surf and snap digital images on the fly. The ubiquitous cellphone camera has already become a valid tool of civilian journalism. Celebrated photographer Joel Sternfeld visited Dubai in 2008, documenting its new malls with the consumer fetish object du jour, the iPhone.
160 pages, 70 plates. A February release according to Steidl, but Amazon says March 31.
First big-name iPhone book? (Besides Chase Jarvis?)
