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I own a fascinating book titled
"Self-portrait in the age of photography - Photographers reflecting their own
image" (1986).
It's the catalogue of an exhibition which began in
Lausanne in 1985 and toured in Europe and the US. (Readily available through the
excellent used-book source http://used.addall.com/Used/ ).
It shows how wide-spread the practice of
selfportrait photography has been over time and the huge diversity treatment
from very simple to highly elaborate. Remember that painters have done a
lot of selfportraits themselves (Rembrant, etc...).
No doubt that digital makes self-portrait so
easy. But in the process I wonder how many people think about elaborating
complex set-ups (mise-en-scene). I reckon that the picture I posted on the
gallery this week was not a terribly good choice by way of making an elaborate
self-portrait...
G.
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Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 8:44
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Subject: Re: Gallery Comments -
SelfPortrait
Guy,
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
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