Some Photos of That Day: 6754 Polaroids dated in sequence [first edition]

Some Photos of That Day, an internet phenomenon the world ( http://photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/ )over is now a book. Intended as a website for friends of the photographer, the site went viral in 2008 and has since been viewed by tens of millions of people, who find that the photographs resonate with their lives in a deeply personal way. Jamie Livingston, photographer, filmmaker, circus performer, accordion player, and New York Mets fan was a pre-Instagram visionary. He died on his forty-first birthday leaving behind hundreds of friends and a collection of over 6,754 photographs chronologically organized and neatly stored in a fruit of the month club box and three suitcases. Livingston started taking a Polaroid every day a few weeks before he graduated from Bard College in 1978. He continued until the day he died of cancer. In between he lived a full life, met people, traveled the world and made 6,754 Polaroid SX-70s photos. Many of the photos depict life in Lower Manhattan, Jamie's travels as a circus performer and filmmaker, a surprising number of famous people, elephants, accordions, the people in his life and the beauty of the ordinary. After Livingston died, his friend Hugh Crawford, a photographer, made a website of the Polaroids. Within days of its soft launch in 2008, it was accidentally discovered by Chris Higgins of Mental Floss, who shared the link with his large following. Higgins is now at work on documentary about the project.