Felix Heyes, Ben West, Google, Volume 1

Google, Volume 1

Felix Heyes, Ben West

Publisher
JBE Books
Year
2013
ISBN
978-2-36568-005-9
Specifications
1,328 pages
21 x 30.2 cm
22,416 pictures
English and French
Limited edition of 1000
Series: Follow Me, Collecting Images Today
First prize, Club des Directeurs Artistiques, publishing category

Every word in the dictionary, in order, replaced by a picture. Heyes and West took the Oxford English Pocket Dictionary and its 21,110 words and put each one through the largest image search engine on the internet, keeping the first result. The words and the definitions have gone; what is left is the machine's answer to them.

The title comes from the verb to google, entered into the Oxford dictionary in June 2006.

“A book that could never have existed in the past, and to browse through it is to marvel at how far we've come visually in the past few decades — and how blasé we've become.” — Douglas Coupland

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