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Review: Essentially, it's just another Taschen photobook - lots of soft porn with a veneer of high art about it. It's not at all a 'diary', or particularly candid or real, as the author admits that the photographs are posed (with the encouragement of Eric Kroll), and that they do not portray actual situations. There's lots of dated-sounding text that breathlessly uses words such as 'downloading' and 'logging-in', as if they were extraordinarily cool, and although it's not quite as bad as anything by David Hamilton, it's essentially a glorified 'Penthouse' shoot, or an Eric Kroll book but with a digital camera. As for the digital nature of the photographs, so what? A camera's a camera.
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