"Rather than seeing selfies as a symptom of modern decay and pathology, Stavans encourages us to see the explosion of selfies as a kind of collective art project, in which everyone’s individualism squeezes into the frame next to everybody else’s individualism." - Noah Berlatsky (Quartz) "A book of absolute contemporary relevance, <i>I Love My Selfie</i> reminds us that nothing has ever been as hard as having a self, and that perhaps to better be true to it, one has to learn to conceal it, in a game of hide and seek that here gains a political dimension." - Carlos Fonseca (TLS) "Stavans’ key intuition that selfies might be understood in dialogue with self-portraiture is significant, as putting pressure on the definitions of selfies and self-portraiture-whether in the present moment or across the history of photography-can yield rich insights." - Nicole Erin Morse (boundary 2)
2. The Plight of Narcissus 10
3. "Decisive Moments" 18
4. Out of Focus 28
Go F_ck Your Selfie: A Portfolio / ADÁL 39
5. Alone with Others 91
6. Rembrandt's Instamatic 98
7. Tropic Noir 113
8. And Then Comes Darkness 122
Acknowledgments 129
Index 131