It's very interesting that selfportraiture is most common now with digicams that it was in the past with film cameras. Today any kid fills him/her blog with selfportraits. I think this happends because with digicams you can check the result right after shot it and delete if you don't like the result and so you get used to the idea of seeing yourself in the photo. But it's remarkble that young photographers are much more confortable with the idea of being photographed themselves that older photographers do.
Charles
Guy Glorieux <guy.glorieux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
From: Charles Dias
Guy Glorieux - The classical "stretched arm" selfportrait ...LOL ... I think
most digital photographers have one of this. Nice your version with the big
wine barrels on the background.
From: Per Öfverbeck
"The Guy who gave barrel distortion a face..." Sorry, just cannot
resist a bad joke when I have the chance. Always nice to see the
face of a fellow PhotoForumer, but I think I would have looked much
happier in that environment.
Thanks for the comments.
There is something interesting involved with self-portraiture. It involves
the photographer developing a dual-role, that of the photographer setting up
an imaginary stage for the subject and that of the subject interacting with
the photographer, each with the common purpose of creating a
"re-presentation" for the viewer.
It can be anything from some of the funniest by Friedlander to the very
articulated by Cindy Shermann.
I've done self-portraits for quite some time in a wide variety of
circumstances and settings. This one has no particular significance other
than a grumpy interaction with the huge wine barrels.
More directly, it was posted in an attempt to start a discussion on the
theme, if anybody cares. Did we do a gallery of self-portraits some time in
the past? How about a LuLu.com book of self-portraits from all members of
this group?
Guy
