Exercise 3.1—Your selfie

I don’t have a particular problem with the idea of making a selfie. There are lots of reasons why one might choose to do so: to register a mood, time or place (yes, I was here!). They can, of course, be used for self-promotion or to create an idealised version of the self. I decided

Exercise 1.1 background

Diane Arbus  Photographer (NYC, 1923–1971). Moved from fashion work with husband Allan Arbus to photographing a wide range of subjects that she befriended: LGBTQ, strippers, carnival performers, nudists, dwarves, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1963 for “American Rites, Manners and Customs”. Renewed 1966. Work included in 1967 MoMA exhibit New Documents along with Lee Friedlander,