On Nov 19, Oxford Dictionaries declared “selfie” Word of the Year for 2013, in honor of the term having taken over the world thanks to millions of Smartphone self-portraits and the resulting shares on social media. When I start writing this paper, there are 326,634,280 posts with the #selfies in instagram. Many people enjoy the pleasure that selfies bring to them, which is seeing their image in the picture. Long before the electronic devises exist, people already began to be eager to express themselves by using rock painting and with the development of western oil painting, The beginning of the selfies is more conveyed by the values of the self, and the artists explore themselves by selfies. self-portrait has become a way for people to show …show more content…
First of all, people are a group of animals. Everyone has the desire to talk, share and communicate. They show themselves on some social platforms to get people's approval and recognition, so they are greatly satisfied in psychology, and also a release of pressure. Take myself, a dynamic self always have more praise and criticism, so it will send the next time in dynamic thinking with a selfie. Therefore it is a two-way process, selfies gets more attention, it will have more people taking selfies. Some people would take selfies because of they want to build up their self-images by using selfies, because selfies can be editable, though editing prople shows the perfect of their own, in order to make up for deficiencies in the real world. This is why people play a role in the homemade network, a virtual scene in the self construction. Normally, we recognize people by how their looks, Social media provide us the way to present ourselves. So now we are using selfies to build up how we look in front of public. Some people would take selfies because they believe they can use selfies to make money. In fact, people can use their selfies to make money, people take sefies as the advertisement of their beauty. Those people who got millions follower in instagram makes huge amount of money by promoting other company’s product. Economists usually call the money they get because of their beauty that Beauty premium . In the other word, beautiful …show more content…
So we pull out our camera and phones to keep the beautiful scene in digital way. Long before the camera exist people use painting to keep the beautiful scene. The artist himself painted portraits, called "self portrait", is one of the earliest artists as a form of self-awakening and establishment of the Renaissance in the limelight. Self-portrait is not only an autobiographical recording method, but also a way for artists to understand themselves, analyze themselves and evaluate themselves. In the Renaissance of Italy, self-portraits were called "mirrors in the mirror". From sixteenth Century onwards, artists began to present themselves with easel palette and brush in hand, with a self-portrait of the maulstick. Each self-portrait can be regarded as a kind of performance, and the artist chooses a special kind of dress and posture for it to present a role. For centuries, countless artists work in this subject, especially Vincent Van Gogh, Blanc Mahlmannsson, Reynolds, Freda, Carol left considerable number of self portrait, self portrait in the way they will own skilled painting skills and positive enterprising spirit to most incisive performance on paper. Lighting and filter effect on modern self-profound life Rembrandt, painted more than 90 self portraits. Rembrandt will draw at least two self-portraits
As the camera’s popularity grew, the use of it shifted from an art form into a social rite, a statement of authority and security. The act of taking photographs, and the photos produced, act as mementos or proof of the past. Photographs summarize an event all within itself, creating an immortal piece, allowing the people to grasp onto the ownership of area in which they feel insecure. On the other hand, Sontag states that the deed of taking photographs occupies the same need for “cosmopolitans […] as it does for lower-middle-class [citizens]”(177). With that being said, how can there be any power at all in photography, but a fake sensation we created from the act of photography to fill our insecurities. By tapping into the insecurities of the readers, Sontag forces them to connect with the words and consider their actions relating to photography more
There you are holding your camera an arm’s length away from your face, posing in the most flattering position to capture your best angle. There you are taking a photo of yourself to share with all of your Facebook friends. Taking a self-portrait photo, also known as a selfie, is something almost everyone has done in this new generation. This action is typically done without a second thought. In Alex Williams’ article “Here I Am Taking My Own Picture” that second thought is provoked through exploring the quickly spreading trend of self-portrait photography. In the article while Williams’ provides interesting examples on a changing generation as this trend progresses through social media and modern technology; Williams also leaves something to be desired within the article due to a lack of direction in the author’s stance on the topic.
I feel as though more and more teens of this generation are using social media in order to seek approval of attention of others. Since they are expected to use social media in a way to create an online audience, they post pictures of themselves and activities so that they can get a “yes” or “no” response from their audience. If someone posts a picture online and someone who is considered a “friend” makes a positive comment on the photo, then they have received approval of their actions. If someone makes a negative remark on the photo, then they have received disapproval. She uses various examples of how young adults use social media to create a persona of themselves, such as when girls post sexualized pictures of themselves and create avatars of themselves (Orenstein, 448). This means that how they are seen online will affect how they act in real life. When Orenstein says that “the self, becomes a brand”, she means that young adults have to act in a way that is perceived to be socially acceptable by their peers, and the image of how everyone sees you. So many people today use social media, and the biggest one that is being used is Facebook. Profile pictures, albums, and statuses are things that gets posted up for anyone to comment, like, or dislike. Your “friends” on
In the article “What Your Selfies Say About You” by Peggy Drexler, she talks about self-portraits also known as the “selfie”, and how it has taken over social media and added a manifestation to society’s obsession with looks. Taking a self-portrait can be positive in the sense that you are proud of your image and are not scared to share it with others helping boost up your self-esteem. Although this may help others by persuading them to not be ashamed to share their true image, Drexler believes this can also affect other individuals whose focus is only on looks making them feel self-conscious about their looks. A recent study out of the UK found that the selfie phenomenon may be damaging to real world relationships, concluding that both excessive
The essay How You See Yourself by Nicholas Mirzoeff discusses the evolution of art. The author discusses the use of art to represent changing identities over the years including cultural practices and societal expectations. The selfie, according to Nicholas Mirzoeff’s essay, is the equivalent of a self-portrait in the previous centuries preceding the technological development required for the present day selfie. The essay explores the different periods and the significance of art, particularly self-portraits, the selfies of the time, and their development over time. The author focuses on different themes including heroism, gender definition, and the focus of an image. Mirzoeff effectively provides examples illustrating and reinforcing the themes he highlights in his essay.
Moreover, Wortham understands the selfie as ‘a kind of visual diary, a way to mark our short existence,’ a dairy of our pictures of our precious moments and memories in our day-to-day lives that we are sharing and putting them up for everyone to see. It is naturally a major role in society today. Selfies have become something of a main factor in the world of social media, which means it’s safe to say that society is getting to a point where the real world and the virtual world overlap almost
The purpose of this paper is to explain how photography became an accepted form of art, as this was accomplished by Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. This was accomplished based on continuous experimentation of techniques to develop photographs, and how he had set up his environments to emphasize the subject and it’s beauty. Though Gaspard was more interested in caricatures and journalism, he decided to apply photography as a rapid form to create caricatures (Janson, 2012) after a friend convinced him to consider the possibility. Gaspard’s work became very popular, as he focused his photographs mainly on people higher in society, as well as Paris’ beauty (Cadava, 2012). Gaspard continued his work as a caricature artist, as there are dated caricatures during his time as a portrait photographer.
Although Rachel Simmons in “ Selfies Are Good for Girls” and Erin Ryan in “ Selfies Aren’t Empowering. They’re a Cry for Help”, both agree selfies can show accomplishments. However, Simmons believes selfies are a way for young women to boost their pride whereas Ryan defines them as a way to gain social approval confirmation. Simmons believes selfies are empowering, and increase self-confidence levels of young women. According to Simmons “selfie is a tiny pulse of girl pride - a shout-out to the self (P4)”. In other word, she believes self-portrait gives teenage girls an outlet to express pride within themselves. She explains how selfie not only express pride, it is also a way for young women to share their accomplishments, as shown in the
A self portrait is normally a painting of the painter itself. The painting is a tangible piece of art because it is
Social media is an outlet to show yourself for the world to see. The majority use social media to connect with friends and to document our lives. However social media is not just an outlet for people to connect. Social media is becoming a booming industry in which thousands are making money off of. Just who though is making money off of this? Well Instagram is a place where anyone can post pictures, doing this anyone can be a model if they have the right camera. And if these people gain enough followers advertisments begin to pop up on their page. Evantually their able to suffice on their own and become finically stable based off a social media account. While many think this to be a new way of entraprenuership there is a downside. With the growth of social media and these “models” a rise in plastic surgery has grown. Surveys have shown that more than half of those who have got comestic surgery have been influenced by social media. Plastic surgery has gone from a private affair to something that is done and known by everyone. Many are even documenting their plastic surgery with hashtags such as “rhinoplastydiary.” Where did this new found love for plastic surgery come from?
Rembrandt van Rijn, a prolific painter and etcher, is noted as the greatest Dutch artist of the Golden Age. Pasadena’s Norton Simon museum is home to some of his achievements, including one of his many self portraits titled Self Portrait painted in 1636-1638. Throughout his lifetime, Rembrandt documented his life in paintings. This autobiography of self portraits was very uncommon for the seventeenth century and helped establish his reputation as an artist. These portraits created a timeline of Rembrandt’s life, as well as document the evolution of his artistic style and expression. He was an exceptional inspiration to the following generation of artists.
“In each of these contacts, he tends to act out what is sometimes called a line – that is, a pattern of verbal and nonverbal acts by which he expresses his view of the situation and, through this, his evaluation of the participants, especially himself” (Goffman, 1967). Line is an impression I prefer to show to others. On Instagram, there is an identity that others cannot find on my Facebook. At the beginning, I opened an Instagram account to share my handmade works and drawings (Fig. 1.). I aspired to show a line that I was creative and talented. People liked me and left comments under my photos was giving me face (Goffman, 1967). They helped me to develop a positive face. And later I did not have the passion for engaging in DIY, and therefore, I began to post comparatively special things in my daily life, for example, my travel (Fig. 2.).
For centuries, humans have used their interaction with one another to help shape outsiders' perceptions of them. Often communication experts refer to this as constructing one’s “social identity.” For many years, this projection of self-came through interpersonal communication; face-to-face communication or other forms of personal interaction. In the progress of technology, this development of one’s personal attributes has come to include photographs, letters, published and unpublished writings, and physical attributes. Many aspects of a person’s “identity” as others see it are difficult and almost impossible to define. In the modern age, such vague characteristics are both helped and hindered by using social media and the internet to “construct”
Whereas men had a so-called “head-start” with painting and sculpture, photography was pioneered by and equally associated with both genders. Sexualized images of women circulated via mass media. Described as a voyeuristic medium, photography was a powerful tool in deconstructing the male gaze and bringing private moments into the public domain (Bonney 1985: 11).
Women desire to become beautiful and powerful, even if they don’t say it in words. And the Photographer plays with that concept and creates that desire, that you can become that person you see in the photograph. And live that lifestyle. Photographers use techniques from the cinema/cinematic, to create the desire of viewers/Buyer/Consumers. The cinematic techniques made it possible the way people lived and the...