I love my selfie
By: essay by Ilan Stavans ; auto-portraits by ADÁL
Contributors: Maldonado, Adál Alberto, photographer
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780822363491; 9780822363385
Subjects: Social media; Self-presentation; Exhibitions; Self-portraits; Photography; Psychological aspects
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 ADÁL; 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." --publisher description.
Notes: "This collaboration includes a portfolio of fifty autoportraits by the artist ADÁL"--Back cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Chillin'; title: The plight of Narcissus; title: "Decisive moments"; title: Out of focus; title: Go fuck your selfie : a portfolio / ADÁL; title: Alone with others; title: Rembrandt's instamatic; title: Tropic Noir; title: And then comes darkness.