Between self-portrait and selfie: a study of performance in photographs of oneself
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2024.221084Keywords:
self-portrait, selfie, performance, photographyAbstract
This study analyses self-portraits and selfies to understand the space-time issues in Mauricio Lissovsky’s thought, which involve constructing self-images. By the lens of performance, it seeks to comprehend the historicity of self-portraits up to the phenomenon of selfies and to point out several ways in which bodies compose accounts of oneself, with their own intentions and meanings that shapin various modes of perceiving space and time in photographic experiences. Despite showing the matrices of the genre, selfies bring specificities in their performance: gestures as establishing the photographic space-time.
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