<div dir="ltr"><div>The inconvenience of a procedure (like frantically running to place oneself in front of the lens before the click) has subtle but particularly in the arts important consequences: it forces the person to be selective.<br><br></div>Murat<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Jonathan Schroeder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesgla@rit.edu" target="_blank">jesgla@rit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Yes, I think you have identified a key aspect of selfies -- the convenience of having a camera in your phone, and seemingly most critically, the convenience of being able to turn the lens 'toward' you to take a selfie. Of course, many other forms of self-portraiture with cameras existed before seflies rose to prominence – I remember many times my father setting the timer on camera mounted on a tripod, and running, somewhat frantically, to get into the picture with the rest of my family. And, in a larger sense, the ease of selfies have offered a boon to self-representation and self-expression, even as they remain bounded by cultural limitations, such as those mentioned by Derek Conrad Murray in his post and writings.<br>
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