Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.

List of contents

Introduction. The Selfie as Visual Culture: A Methodological Quandary
Derek Conrad Murray
1. Counter-Selfies and the Real Subsumption of Society
Grant Bollmer
2. Self-Portraiture and Self Performance
Katherine Guinness
3. Proliferating Identity: Trans Selfies as Contemporary Art
Ace Lehner
4. The Evolution of the Selfie: Influencers, Feminism and Visual Culture
Derek Conrad Murray
5. How Selfies Think: The Cognitive Dimensions of Digital Photography
Kyle Parry
6. Domestic Snapshots: Female Self-Imaging Practices Then and Now
Soraya Murray
7. The Selfie in Consumer Culture
Jonathan Schroeder
8. Selfie Narcissism, Consumerism and the Pathologizing of Women
Derek Conrad Murray

About the author

Derek Conrad Murray is a Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, "selfies," with a specific interest in online self-imaging strategies in a Western context.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Conrad Murray, Derek Conrad (University of California Murray
• Assisted by: Derek Conrad Murray (Editor), Murray Derek Conrad (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367206086
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20608-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge History of Photography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, ART / History / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Portraits & Selfies, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Photographs: Portraits, Photography: portraits and self-portraiture