America 24/7 [antikvár]

An American Time Capsule A hundred years from now, historians may pose questions such as these: What was America like at the beginning of the third millennium? How did life change after the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing war on terrorism? How was America affected by its corporate accounting scandals and the high-tech boom and bust? Was it still the land of opportunity? Could Americans still express themselves freely? We created America 24/7, the largest collaborative photography project in history, to address these questions and countless others. Since so many Americans seem concerned about how their country is portrayed by Hollywood, Madison Avenue, the media, and government, we decided this would be a propitious time to invite Americans to tell their own stories, unfiltered, with digital photographs of their families, friends, and communities. Over the course of a seven-day period, May 12-18, 2003, more than 25,000 professional and amateur photographers, including 36 Pulitzer Prize winners, were issued an unusualxh^lenge: Go out and create a visual time capsule. Make extraordinary images of everyday-American life. Like any week, this particular week's momentous and mundane events were reflected in headlines: Record Number of Tornadoes in the Texas and Oldahoma Panhandle; Candidate Bush Files Papers for 2004 Race; Trapped in Heat in Texas Truck, i8 Immigrants Die; Lawsuit Seeks to Ban Sale of Oreos to Children; Cramps a Grad at Age 95. Other events, that didn't make the headlines, were reflected in the quotidian statistics of American life: 78,000 Americans were born, 45,000 married, 48,000 died. Hundreds of thousands more graduated from high school or college. Millions celebrated birthdays. But America isn't merely the sum of its headlines and statistics. America is a supersized idea—a dreamspace—where individuals are free to practice Catholicism or