"The book is a distillation of 250,000 pictures snapped by 25,000 people, including 1,000 professional photographers, three dozen of whom are Pulitzer winners...that documents how we live, labor and laze. From Botox parties to high school proms, from political protesters to marching bands, the images run the gamut of the American experience."
--USA Today

"Putting a digital spin on a publishing genre they helped define, Messrs. Smolan and Cohen are about to publish America 24/7, a panoramic view of life in the U.S., as captured in more than 1,100 digital color photographs. The book, to be published next month by Pearson PLC's DK Publishing unit, is an enormously ambitious project. It distills more than 250,000 digital photographs taken during a week in May by an estimated 25,000 photographers, including 1,000 professionals outfitted with new digital cameras."
--The Wall Street Journal-September 29, 2003

"The technology may be 21st Century high-tech but the pictures are not...what appears in the pages of America 24/7 may well be an idealised view of America, but it is an America that still exists."
--CBS Sunday Morning-October 12, 2003

"No one is likely to accuse Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen of having bad ideas... Mr. Smolan and Mr. Cohen, who are perhaps best known for creating the 'Day in the Life' series of photography books in the 1980s, have come up with an ambitious 21st-century version called America 24-7."
--The New York Times

"America is ready for its close-up. More than 2,000 professional photographers and countless amateurs are turning their lenses toward the USA's forgotten corners - the mundane moments that Hollywood and Madison Avenue often ignore. It's part of a project called America 24-7."
--USA Today

"...1,000 professional photographers fanning out across the nation to document a full week in the life of America. But this time around, amateur photographers will be able to submit their own digital photos for consideration."
--National Public Radio

"Not since Roy Stryker, who ran an unparalleled photography project through the Farm Security Administration from 1935 until 1942, has America seen itself documented so thoroughly. More than 60 years later, photographer Rick Smolan and writer-editor David Elliot Cohen are trying to follow in Stryker's footsteps with a similar idea. The two, who have been creating photography books for more than two decades, hope to create a vivid, accurate and thorough depiction of America with their new project, America 24/7... 'Stryker's definition of what America looked like in the 1930s and '40s was the definitive work of his time,' Cohen says. 'Now we want to do the same thing, reflecting this era, at this pivotal time in history.'"
--San Francisco Chronicle

"...a national photo event that will allow digital photographers to document life across the United States 24 hours a day for seven days...MSNBC will feature some of the best work submitted each day."
--MSNBC

"The ambitious book project - its jumble of digital images to be captured continuously Monday through May 18 - is of a scale that dwarfs Smolan and Cohen's other successful photography feats, including the New York Times No. 1 best seller "A Day in the Life of America."
--San Antonio Express-News

"This unprecedented endeavor was the brainchild of photographer Rick Smolan and author David Elliot Cohen, longtime partners whose 1986 work, A Day in the Life of America, remains the best-selling photography book ever published. While A Day in the Life - a project using 200 photographers - put the authors on the map, America 24/7, with its army of 1,000 pros and thousands more amateur photographers, promises to be their piece de resistance."
--Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"...'You've got to get your group out covering Kansas,' [editor Karen Mullarkey] said excitedly over the phone. 'We don't want everybody falling over one another in your end of the state. An Elvis impersonator in Elkhart, good. Dorothy and Oz in Liberal ... love it, love it.'..."
--The Lawrence Journal World

"...[David] Cohen attributes their ability to execute such a large-scale project to two factors: digital cameras and Internet technology. 'There's something like 25 million families with digital cameras right now,' says Cohen, 'and because of our technology, every person in America can send us exactly seven pictures, instantly, and show us what their life is like.'..."
--Baltimore Sun

"...Besides a Web site where individuals' photos can be viewed, lucky shutter bugs' work might make it into a national volume of photos or one of 52 books for each state, Washington D.C., and a special New York City edition..."
--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"The team that changed photo history in the 1980's has reunited to document America again, and they need your help...they are back together and looking to make waves with an even bigger documentary project called America 24/7..."
--American Photo Magazine

"America's opportunity to create a national family album during one ordinary week (May 12-18, 2003)"
--Take Great Pictures

"...a grand new book project from the creators of the Day in the Life series (resulting in a 53-book deal)...Day in the Life series creators Rick Smolan and David Cohen's new venture America 24/7, starting with a large-format book showcasing the best photographs from a nationwide photo shoot involving over 1,000 professionals and countless amateurs from across the United States, serving as a digital time capsule of life in America..."
--Publishers Lunch

"1,000 Photojournalists Wanted for Documentary Project...Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen, creators of the Day in the Life book series, have reunited to oversee America 24/7, an ambitious project documenting life in America. The organization is looking to hire 1,000 photographers to shoot for the project during the week of May 12-18. Photographers will be asked to propose assignments in their communities, and will have use of Olympus digital cameras."
-Photo District News (online)