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Everyday - now on the iPad!

Everyday

I'm very excited to announce that Everyday: A Yearlong Photo Diary has just been released for the iPad. This link will take you to it at Apple's iTunes/iBook store where you can download a free abridged version, complete with a new foreword, the original introductory essay, and a small selection of the pictures. The full version is available for $3.99. I hope you'll explore the publication, and if you like it, provide feedback at the Apple bookstore. Most of all, please share it with your friends!

It works on all iPads running iBooks 2.2 and looks spectacular on the most recent model with the retina display. It will not run on iPhones.

Why did I go back a redo something that was already complete? I've long thought about re-releasing the book in electronic format. Indeed, in 2004 my original proposal to Chronicle Books (the publisher of the hardbound copy) included an electronic version, but it was just too early in the e-book world for such a thing to find an audience.

But more importantly, it's been ten years (!) since I first started making daily pictures with the intent of sharing them with a wider audience as a book of narrative photographs. Back in 2002, the idea of making and sharing personal and daily pictures was uncommon. A decade ago, the photography and communication world was very different, well before digital cameras (and iPhones) became commonplace. Now we have ubiquitious picture-sharing sites, photo blogs, Facebook, and the wildly popular Instagram - all new and engaging ways to make and share photographs. I'm hoping the iPad edition of Everyday finds a home with this new audience, partly because they'll find something they like in the work, but also because so many people now participate in the practice of shared daily photography.

In many ways I think the electronic version of Everyday is a much better marriage of content and form than the original printed volume in that it's a closer realization of my original idea of a flowing visual narrative. What's more, every picture is presented in the same size so that significant details can now be seen. Captions are also included as my handwritten text, a subtle, but important change.

Byron 

Everyday

Everydaymailer4Everyday: A Yearlong Photo Diary

8 x 8 in: 272 pages with over 365 color photographs, hardcover, Chronicle Books, 2007.

Here's a pdf of the book's introduction that outlines my motivations and the context for trying to make at least one interesting picture every single day for an entire year.

I teach an everyday project in one of my own photography courses. Here's the handout I use to introduce the assignment.

The postings below are screenshots from the first few pages of the iPad edition.

First day: my grandfather died

First dayByron Wolfe, 2002. First day: my grandfather died and I turned thirty-five. June 23, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

Travelling cloud

Travelling cloud

Byron Wolfe, 2002. Travelling cloud. June 25, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

The view from my grandfather's barn

View from the barn

Byron Wolfe, 2002. The view from my grandfather's barn: lightning storm above Grant County, Indiana. June 26, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

My grandfather

My grandfather

Byron Wolfe, 2002. Maynard L. Wolfe, my grandfather. June 27, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

After the funeral

Cleaning out the barn

Byron Wolfe, 2002. After the funeral, cleaning out his barn. June 28, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

My grandfather's favorite slipper

My grandfather's slipper

Byron Wolfe, 2002. My grandfather's favorite slipper. June 29, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

Final descent

Final descent

Byron Wolfe, 2002. Final descent, returning home. June 30, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

From our favorite tree (the Weeping Santa Rosa)

Our favorite tree

Byron Wolfe, 2002. From our favorite tree (the Weeping Santa Rosa). July 3, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

Our most faithful hen

Yellow

Byron Wolfe, 2002. "Yellow", our most faithful hen. July 4, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

While pruning the plum tree

While pruning the plum tree

Byron Wolfe, 2002. While pruning the plum tree, I pause to watch you through the window. November 30, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

Black mitten

Black mitten

Byron Wolfe, 2002. Black mitten. December 24, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 6.2"h  x 8.5"w

Fruit trees in my yard

Fruit trees in my yard

Byron Wolfe, 2002. Fruit trees in my yard whose names I say out loud while wandering through the night:

Moorpark Apricot.

Chocolate Persimmon.

Warren Pear.

Montmorency Cherry.

Pink Lady Apple.

Liz's Late Nectarine.

Rio Oso Gem Peach.

And my personal favorite,

The Weeping Santa Rosa Plum.

 December 3 and 4, 2002.


Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 8.5"h  x 44"w

My father's fruit trees

The life of a cloud

Byron Wolfe, 2002. 1,875.5 miles – the distance travelled

To photograph my father's trees

And watch them bend

From the weight of the day.

December 28, 2002.

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 8.5"h  x 32"w

The life of a cloud

The life of a cloud

Byron Wolfe, 2003. The life of a cloud (1:58 - 2:03 PM, April 26, 2003).

Medium: Digital inkjet print. Dimensions: 8.5"h  x 56"w