| I Love My Selfie Contributor(s): Stavans, Ilan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822363496 ISBN-13: 9780822363491 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - Photography | Criticism - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 770.973 |
| LCCN: 2016040908 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.6" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What explains our current obsession with selfies? In I Love My Selfie noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans explores the selfie's historical and cultural roots by discussing everything from Greek mythology and Shakespeare to Andy Warhol, James Franco, and Pope Francis. He sees selfies as tools people use to disguise or present themselves as spontaneous and casual. This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist AD L; he and Stavans use them as a way to question the notion of the self and to engage with artists, celebrities, technology, identity, and politics. Provocative and engaging, I Love My Selfie will change the way readers think about this unavoidable phenomenon of twenty-first-century life. |