The ubiquitous ‘selfie’ has been dominating social media sites for some time now, but how do we differentiate between a vanity snap and legitimate art?
The self portrait – long practised by artists such as Frida Khalo, Van Gogh and Matisse – is permeating our society through the popularisation of the smart phone and the rise of the “selfie”. Our need to document ourselves in every exciting situation by taking a photo and sharing it with our friends is so omnipresent that it will become one of the defining popular culture elements of a generation – one that we will remember though quirky Instagram filters.
