Living Through The Lens
Self Portraiture
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Legendary music artist Prince made news for posting a mirrored self image. However, the self-portrait has been a popular form of expression ever since man first saw his own reflection.
Maybe the first significant twentieth-century pre-selfie is M. C. Escher’s 1935 lithograph Hand With Reflecting Sphere. Its strange compositional structure is dominated by the artist’s distorted face, reflected in a convex mirror held in his hand and showing his weirdly foreshortened arm. It echoes the closeness, shallow depth, and odd cropping of modern selfies. Source: Vulture
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But First Let's Take A Selfie
Just as the affordability of mirrors drove the rise of self-portraits in Renaissance Art, the smartphone has made it easy to engage in self photography.
The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. Source: Hyperallergic, Before the Selfie, the Self-PortraitDoes Taking a Selfie Make You Self-Absorbed? Short answer: Psychologists, say No.
Humans have long demonstrated an interest in self-exploration. From early Greeks to present day, people have used self-study and self-observation to explore identity and sense of self. ~ Pamela Rutledge, Ph.D. for Psychology Today
A Selfie A Day With Mike Mellia
New York based photographer Mike Mellia explores current state of self-portraiture in his Instagram project "A Selfie A Day Keeps The Doctors Away" .
Follow the photographer's ongoing selfie project on Instagram at @mikemellia.
Tools You Can Use (How to Take The Perfect Selfie by Michelle Phan)
Go ahead and take that selfie. The camera loves you :-) , or is it you love the camera?
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