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von Joachim Schmid
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Schlagworte: Currywurst, Flickr, online photo hosting
Foto-Blog "currywurst" www.fotokritik.de/imgblog_14.html
Photo Sharing: You Can Eat Your Sausage and Have It, Too.
My home town is not famous for its fancy food. People seem to be happy with fast food. The best-known local specialty is the so-called Currywurst. It is a sausage made of unknown ingredients that is fried and covered with some sort of ketchup made of unknown ingredients. The dish is topped with curry powder and it comes either with a piece of bread or with potatoe chips made of unknown ingredients. People seem to like it. Huge numbers of these sausages are sold and consumed every day.
I have been living in Berlin for more than 30 years. For the most part of this time I have been studying other people‘s photographs. In all these years I have not encountered more than maybe a dozen photographs of Currywurst. There were a few stock photos that were printed in papers and magazines whenever there was a Currywurst-related article, there was one picture postcard featuring Currywurst, and then I came across one single snapshot of a Currywurst — one out of several hundred thousands of snapshots I looked at. That was it.
Things look different today. When I prepared this talk I checked how many photographs of Currywurst you can find on the internet. There are more than 30,000 photographs online, and these are just the ones that are found by search engines because they are identified by appropriate captions and tags. I would like to mention some more figures, only to avoid a possible misunderstanding. There are not only a lot of photographs of Currywurst on the internet, there are also hundreds of thousands of photographs of other sausages and several million photographs of hamburgers, fish 'n' chips, pizza, sushi, tapas - and many more photographs of everything you may or may not want to see.
23.08.2008
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