I Love My Selfie

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, editor, and translator of numerous books, including Reclaiming Travel, also published by Duke University Press.

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Adál Maldonado is a visual, performance, installation, and video artist;¿playwright;¿cofounder of the first all-artist political party in Puerto Rico; the recipient of a Pollock-Krassner Fellowship;¿and the author of several books, including Out of Focus Nuyoricans.

List of contents

1. Chillin'  1
2. The Plight of Narcissus  10
3. "Decisive Moments"  18
4. Out of Focus  28

Go F_ck Your Selfie: A Portfolio / ADÁL  39

5. Alone with Others  91
6. Rembrandt's Instamatic  98
7. Tropic Noir  113
8. And Then Comes Darkness  122

Acknowledgments  129
Index  131

About the author

Essay by Ilan Stavans / Auto-Portraits by ADÁL

Summary

Noted cultural critic Ilan Stavans and artist ADÁL analyze the selfie and its role in contemporary life by exploring it in the context of the history of Western self-portraiture, mythology, literature, art, and philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Ilan Stavans, Ilan/ Maldonado Stavans
• Assisted by: Adal Maldonado (Photographs), Adál Maldonado (Photographs)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780822363385
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6338-5
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Kunstgeschichte, Photography, ART / History / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism