"Everyone's a little narcissistic," Ms. Adams said. "Being able to take pictures of yourself in privacy allows you to do it without inhibitions. Each person takes better pictures of themselves than anyone else can because they know their own bodies, they know their own minds."
I love what she says here and I think that you taking your own pictures is a really good way to express yourself and I to think that you are the only one that can take a picture of yourself and have it flatter what you want and exclude what you don't.
Unfortunately I think that this is setting a bad trend, mostly with teenage girls, that pose in revealing clothing and have everything hangout just to try and attract Johnny Football Captain who happens to be the guy of her dreams. I used to see a lot of people taking these kind of pictures and posting them and I was like, "What are you trying to say? What happened to leaving some for their imagination?" I have no problem with people taking self portraits of them self like in the bathroom mirror with the camera clearly visible (and the star burst of the flash), but I just think that people take these and don't think about the consequences of having these things in cyberspace...once it's there you can never get it out.
I don't know if Facebook and other various networking sites are making it better or worse. I just think that the younger generation needs a lesson in "posting pics on the web and what it could do..." Those pictures that you post on the web about that slammin' under aged party you went to could cost you a job or you could loose a job that way. It's not uncommon to have a job look you up at Facebook in their background check anymore so everyone needs to be careful about what they post and only get attention for the right reasons not the way you look in that pic you took in your bathroom in your bikini.
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I completely agree with you that there is a bad trend going on in the facebook world with self portraiture. I think that the main problem is that the photos aren't taken to be artistic or to express ones self anymore, they are taken solely to show off.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bre. It's pathetic instead of using photos to take picture of the real you. Not the fake one. It's difficult to not just want to take the camera from those people, and just throw it at them.
ReplyDeleteNicely put Nena. Although I think you brought up some interesting points with your comments, I did want to hear more about what you thought of these photographic trends in how they affect the art community. What do you think of them as an artist?
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