SALTZY SELFIES - AROUND 100 IMAGE-MAKERS

CURATOR'S NOTES. Probing the possibility that the selfie may be an undiscovered art form (or at least taking note of various categories of selfie he had run across), Jerry Saltz, the World's Most Famous Living Art Critic, penned an article called "Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie" [ www ]. Jerry posted a link to the article on his own Facebook page, a page which is an epic forum for Art World types with over 40,000 followers --set to "public" privacy status and with a "take anything from me" attitude toward copyright. Jerry said, "Feel free to post Selfies that you think fit in one or another of these categories" and almost 300 replies quickly followed --some with photos [ www ]. There were a few "we need a curator" calls posted, including sentiment from Jerry. Since other curators (many read Jerry's posts) didn't all raise their hands at once, I took the plunge. Behold an online exhibit of around 100 submitted selfies. Many are from artists or art-exhibit-visitors, leading to some unusual imagery. More text. Only "Fair Use" sized low-rez screencap icons appear in the grids herer. This exhibit is non-commercial/non-selling, and any parties wishing to acquire an image must consult the original image-makers (see link in photo captions). Thanks to everyone for sharing some of your SELVES. --Terry Ward (AKA GrumpyVisualArtist) [ web ]

Group below, thanks to: Adam Lister, AdrienneRose Gionta, Angela Dominguez Burris, Anita Arliss, Barbara Ann Levy, Barbara Rosenthal, Bernard Klevickas Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr


Group below, thanks to: Betty Tompkins, Bridget Freeman Wamsley, Carey Maxon, Carla Malone Steck, Carolyn Frischling, Chris Harvey, Christian Weidner, Christina Balch Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Claudia Schwalb, Daniel Shapiro, Danielle Morse, Debby Luzia, Ed Grant, Ede Ericson Cardell, Ellen Jong Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Erik Hanson, Erika Kristine Bogner, Frank J Miles, Frau Kolb, Gabe Mccarter, Hans Heiner Buhr, Honey Hill Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Ila Schloss, Jef Mayz, Jeff Hogue, Joaquin Carter, Joe Mangrum Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Johnny Naked, Jon Tsoi, Judy Rifka, Karla Knight, Kevin Buist, L.C. Armstrong, Leslie Wayne Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Lucy Mink Covello, Luke Yocum, Margaret McCann, Mark Dutcher, Mark Petersen, Mary Addison Hackett, Mary Mead Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Matthew Wong, Michael Berens, Mike Watson, Mimi Young, Monika Talarek, Nancy Oliveri Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Nancy Oliveri, Oriane Stender, P E Sharpe, Paige Tooker, Patricia Fabricant, Peregrine Honig Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Peregrine Honig, Reynolds N. Art, Rob Ventura, Rose Minetti, Sean Capone, Sean Michael Kenny, Selin Sinan Uz Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Shelley Davis, Stacy Leigh, Susan Carr, Susan Jamison, Terry Middleditch, Terry Ward Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



Group below, thanks to: Tim Maxwell, TL Duryea, Uday Shanbhag, Victoria Casal, Vincent Zambrano Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



(Wave 2) Group below, thanks to: Alastair Eales, Antonio Petracca, Atom IC Elroy, Barbara Marks, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Joe Mangrum, Laura Moriarty, Leif Olson Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr



(Wave 2) Group below, thanks to: Marcus Zilliox, Nancy Oliveri, Oliver Wasow, Patricia Bellucci, Peggy Lynn, Renee Riccardo, Terry Ekasala, Tm Gratkowski Copyright: the original image/reply-makers, see http://on.fb.me/1if6ROr




The (Wave 1) images are re-grouped alphabetically by the creators' first names (with apologies to poor Vincent Zambrano, who can't win no matter how alphabetical order is deployed). The re-groupings created, by chance, new relationships which fascinate me. The accidental convergence of common elements by different photographers intrigues me. Eyewear, tilted heads, whole-body figures, sphere-themes, masks, medical themes, seductiveness, whimsy --tended to cluster together even though only the chance elements of artist names (and where in the next group of eight specimens one's photo would appear) determined the "relationships" among these people. It reminds me of my own long-ago delight at seeing page-headers in the Yellow Pages where coincidental grouping created funny (to me) phrases like DEMOLITION-DENTISTRY or PICKLING-PLUMBERS. Perhaps the current Facebook users' first "social media" resource was the phone book --of course, long before the phrase social media existed.

The Wave 2 images either came in after I made the initial exhibit page or were unable to be included in Wave 1 (due to: not really a selfie, use of a proxy-model, too small, or I just missed it).

Big thanks to PE Sharpe and Joaquin Carter for the inspiration to assemble this collection. Thanks again to Jerry who got this whole thing started with the selfie article [ www ].

Image below: Jerry Saltz (Selfie with Cy Twombly) Copyright: the original image-maker/s, see http://on.fb.me/1c8aUrp



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