by Alicia | Jan 27, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — There are selfies for every occasion, outfit, haircut, new pair of glasses, and reflective work of art, and then there are accidental selfies in Craigslist mirrors. Are these windows onto the soul or just portals-for-sale that happen to end up on a smartly...
by Alicia | Jan 13, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, will begin on February 7, but theselfie olympics have already gone viral. These gold-, silver- and bronze-winning selfies show individuals displaying amazing agility in relation to the mirror. These competitors...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — We’re starting 2014 off right with lots and lots of selfies. Now that we’vecrowned the selfie kings, it’s back to selfie business as usual. Twenty-year-old Jen Selter seems complacent with the fact that she does mostly body selfies, telling the New York...
by Alicia | Jan 7, 2014 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The race for selfie king is on. James Franco’s piece in the New York Timesnow rivals Benny Winfield Jr.’s interview in VICE. “Selfies are something new to me, but as I have become increasingly addicted to Instagram, I have been accused of posting too many of...
by Alicia | Dec 23, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — Just because “selfies” was named Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year and Barack Obama shot that funeral selfie doesn’t mean these internet self-portraits are a passing fad. No, my friends, selfies are here to stay, both in a public discourse and art...
by Alicia | Dec 9, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column, Writing
CHICAGO — What’s it like to be on the other side of the mirror? Selfies are contemporary self-portraits shot through the reverse-mirror effect available through smartphones and webcams. We see ourselves reflected back into the smartphone or webcam mirror, snap the...
