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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muBxDVdzbQw Many fret that this explosion of selfies proves that ours is an unusually narcissistic age.
Discussing one selfie, the Post trotted out a tired line about “the greater global calamity of Western decline.” C’mon: The moral sky isn’t falling. Marina Galperina, who with fellow curator Kyle Chayka presented the National #Selfie Portrait Gallery, rightly says,
“It’s less about narcissism—narcissism is so lonely!—and it’s more about being your own digital avatar.”
Chayka adds, “Smartphone selfies come out of the same impulse as Rembrandt’s ... to make yourself look awesome.”
Franco says selfies “are tools of communication more than marks of vanity … Mini-Mes that we send out to give others a sense of who we are.”
Selfies are our letters to the world. They are little visual diaries that magnify, reduce, dramatize—that say, “I’m here; look at me.” Jerry Saltz
http://www.vulture.com/2014/01/history-of-the-selfie.html