My Camera My Self(ie) by Sabrina Hughes In my History of Photography course, there is a class meeting on the syllabus dedicated to discussing selfies. I’m sure my undergraduate students roll their eyes when they see this and wait for me to deliver a punchline that never arrives. Discussing selfies, even uttering [...]
Read MoreThe upcoming essay by St. Petersburg photo historian Sabrina Hughes, My Camera My Self(ie), which will post on Bay Art Files next week, examines the complex relationship between photographic self-portraiture and the selfie. That such a relationship might exist and be scrutinized is explicitly suggested by the title of the current [...]
Read MoreComing soon - An essay by Sabrina Hughes on the exhibition 'This Is Not a Selfie' currently showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida.
Read MoreDisturbed by Delight by Caitlin Albritton “Woman dressed as a turkey arrested for shoplifting,” “Someone donated a loaded grenade launcher to Goodwill,” “Man claims wife was kidnapped by holograms”—please, don’t let this be a headline from Florida, a local might plead. I can’t begin to imagine how non-Floridians make sense of the Sunshine [...]
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