TAKING PICTURES OF YOURSELF

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VANITY, VANITY....

Confess your photographic narcissism right here, right now.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(Or, does the communal American Puritan psyche caused us to feel unnecessary guilt while photographing ourselves [when no one else is around.] Are we all Amish deep down inside?)

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I take pictures of myself when noone esle is around.

― Magic City (ano ano), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Who the hell is this voyeuristic Noone Esle?

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.profotos.com/education/referencedesk/masters/masters/leefriedlander/profile.jpg

Lee Friedlander took a lot of self-portraits with his trusy Leica.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This is my only self-portrait I have on Photobucket right now:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/IMG_0093.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i was young and needed the money.

― motown modown (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget to pucker your lips and look up with puppy-dog eyes, little high-school goth-ettes! The internet needs you!!

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Digital cameras allow you to take thousands of photos of yourself, and delete all but the most flattering. Self-love knows no bounds.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ken C and me to thread?

We used to post daily self-portraits on another board.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't show up in photographs.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, that is an awesome, awesome photo. Where did you score Texas-shaped glasses?

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I weird in that, even when I had a digital camera to hand, I never once took a photo of myself? This is low self-esteem, but I surely can't be alone in it, can I?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The TX sunglasses belonged to Sarah's grandmother, a longtime Texas resident.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a whole thread where people took pictures of themselves with the previous pics in the background, but I don't remember what it was called. But it was awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

This is me looking nothing short of frightful after about two hours of sleep under sickly flourescents.

http://giganticmag.com/images/thug_life.jpg

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.geocities.com/acewhiskey/nixonandme.jpg

What if you take a picture of yourself twice?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I weird in that, even when I had a digital camera to hand, I never once took a photo of myself? This is low self-esteem, but I surely can't be alone in it, can I?

No, when I had a digital camera I never did either. Though, to be fair, I never got round to taking many pictures with it anyway - which is why I ended up giving it to my sister.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That makes me sad. Everyone should have a camera to play with.

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

And not a camera phone, either, people!

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I used that digital camera lots - just not photos of me.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Not one of my finer performances...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit, why didn't that work? bear with me, I'm new to the whole html thing:

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMN! What am I doing wrong???

It's at http://tinypic.com/em5nn regardless...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

just put "i" in front of the "http". Don't use "a href=".

― Hank Tenbeer (kenan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://tinypic.com/em634

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yay, it worked! thanks hank! sorry for tying up the thread for everyone...

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I jusy interject here and ask why guilt over "photographic narcissism" need be purely an American thing?

Its just I see plenty of pouting doe eyed gothettes on LJ that live right in my city, also, and I'm a bit tired of it. Hell, I'm VERY sick of it.

Having said that I like selfportraits but I like to think of it in more experimental terms, like Cindy Sherman shots maybe. Not that I've ever really tried to do storylike poses in costume but eh.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Americans are supposed to be humble and self-deprecating... like Woody Guthrie and Creedence Clearwater.

Brits are flamboyant and self-aggrandizing, like Elton John and Dame Edna.

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Australians have the Tallest Poppy syndrome!

― andy, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought Dame Edna was Australian?

― papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

GOod point on the tall poppy thing andy! ;) But yes, Dame Edna is Australian. And a he. His name's Barry Humphries :)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I always hope the camera will start lying, but I carry on taking photo's of myself anyway.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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