2. Comparisons
• We can say that Sleeveface and Dear Photograph
both fit into participatory photography. This is
because both of these blogging websites allow
the viewers to interact and take part with what is
happening within the website, allowing them
upload photographs, leave comments and
browse through other people’s photographs and
blogs. These websites also fit in with the idea of
‘New Media’ making the viewer not just a viewer
anymore but also as a participate with the
website.
3. • Sleeveface is a well-known phenomenon across the internet. This blogging website is all about
uploading your own photos to the website and making the picture your own. But this is where the
originality comes in. Sleeveface bloggers take photographs of themselves holding up a vinyl cover or
another kind of photograph over a certain body part to obscure it, causing an illusion across the
photograph. This then creates a whole new image.
• Sleeveface has now become an extremely popular website to look at when you need a laugh and
when you want a bit of inspiration to create your own image to upload onto Sleeveface. IT has also
become very popular for social networking sites to use.
• The term for Sleeveface was created in 2007 when a group of people were taking pictures of
themselves holding up record sleeves of their faces. These photos were then uploaded onto the social
networking site Facebook and a group was created and then the craze for making these pictures
began. Although, it is unknown how Sleeveface originally started. It is thought to believe that a large
number of photographs were uploaded online to a website called waxidermy.com in 2006. Also there
have been comparisons to Sleeveface in Mad Magazine as well. This is now known as ‘Sleevefacing’.
• Rocc, whose own sleeve (front and back) was done in the group sleeveface style.[7] Another case and
possibly the earliest "sleeveface" photo is on the back of the album "Picture This" by Huey Lewis and
the News in 1982, where Huey is holding the front side of the album (showing his face) in front of his
face. Earlier still, is John Hiatt's 1979 "Slug Face" album where he too is holding a sleeve (showing his
face) in front of his face.
4. • Dear Photograph was started by a young twenty-two year old man named Taylor
Jones. He wanted to create a new way to tell stories over the internet using simple
but meaningful photographs.
• "Taylor Jones has found a new way to tell our stories. Dear Photograph is digital
nostalgia of the highest order -- it will make you smile, maybe cry, and go find your
old family photos."
• -- Frank Warren, PostSecret Founder
• Jones was inspired to start up a website for sharing photographs online from when
he was looking at some old family photographs. He was looking through these
photos sitting at his parents dining room table and found a photo of his brother
when he as little sitting at the very same table he was at. He held the photograph
up and placed it inline with the table at present and then had a certain idea for a
website and this is when dearphotgraph.com was born. After this website was
created he asked people to upload their own photos with the similar idea. He found
the response unbelievable. Within six weeks of the site being created, millions of
people has visited the website and were uploading their own photographs to it. This
created the internet phenomenon that it around today.
