“Try and get my dark side, man.” image via @garywhitta
The month of June has been devoted to photography here at 4mothers, and this week, we are turning the camera on ourselves to ask “How has social media affected how we portray ourselves in pictures?”
Do you selfie? Even Darth Vader’s doing it, with a lightsaber selfie stick, no less. (That would wreak some serious havoc with the light meter. Just sayin.’)
Do you substitute selfie, putting up pictures of your kids, your food or your work space instead of a picture of yourself?
Is your profile picture a picture of you or of something that represents you or is it something altogether different?
Are your social media photos heavily edited or brutally honest?
Are you inundated with other people’s social media photographic “perfection” or TMI?
These are some of the questions we will be tackling this week.
In the mean time, have a look at this fascinating history of the female portrait in European art. Just think, one day, years hence, one of those iterations will be of a woman posing with a selfie moue.
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