Alise Tifentale is an art & photography historian, writer, editor, curator, and a Ph.D. candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. www.alisetifentale.net
The role of photography as a document is constantly overrated. The role of camera in photography is also overrated. Yes, of course, we could agree about the indexical nature of photographic images—camera always captures whatever is before the lens. But…
Recently an artist friend claimed in a conversation that he thinks that people, including himself, have made selfies all the time, even before the appearance of social media and smartphones. He said he used the word “selfie” just as a…
