Reuters had an interview recently with a fairly influential U.K. Photographer (David Bailey) in which he predicted the death of the selfie.
A much younger photographer that writes for SLR Lounge (Adam Kuzik) responded online.
Personally, I don't know which of the two is more out of touch. David Bailey, who didn't even know what a selfie was until recently, or Adam Kuzik who proclaimed the seflie "arguably, the most significant photographic movement ever".
I'm tempted to go with the latter.
I can understand how someone who is currently 76-years old might just miss out on the latest social trend among those 1/4 his age.
I have a hard time seeing how you can honestly call the trend of people taking pictures of themselves mugging for the camera and then posting the shot online as a significant photographic movement. The proliferation of cell phone cameras maybe. This vastly increases the number of people with digital cameras. But the selfie?
The self-portrait photograph has been around since the development of the timer.
How many family photographs taken with one have you seen? Those are basically "selfies".
Personally, I think Bailey might be right in predicting a short life for the selfie trend. The trend has been pushed by teenagers with cell phones. The problem is that adults have started engaging in selfies.
When adults do it, it's no longer cool.
Selfie? That's, like, so 2010.
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