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Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined, and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular. Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current form of self-representation to date.
Keywords: Selfies; self-portraiture; social media; art history; representation; photography; contemporary art; Intersectionality; intersectional approaches; identity; aesthetics; contemporary life; consumer culture; avant-guard
Contents
Introduction
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From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age
Issues in Self-Representation
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Between Our Selves: Conversations on Race and Representation
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Feeling Myself: Loving Gestures and Representation in Mickalene Thomas: Muse
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From Self to #Selfie: An Introduction
Selfie Shifts
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Race for the Prize: The Proto-Selfie as Endurance Performance Art
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Reflecting on Life on the Internet: Artistic Webcam Performances from 1997 to 2017
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Selfie-Wars on Social Media
New Selfie Precedents
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“First Ever Selfie Cover!”: Cosmopolitan Magazine, Influencers, and the Mainstreaming of Selfie Style
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Self-Image as Intervention: Travis Alabanza and the New Ontology of Portrait Photography
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Review by editor and external reviewers.