Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie Analogue during an eight-day trip through

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Cole’s writings in Black Paper approach the fractured moment of our history through a constellation of interrelated concerns: confrontation with unsettling art

This film washes your images with warm shades of red

Author: Lynette Nylander

Narcissus in Bloom: An Alternative History of the Selfie Analogue during an eight-day trip throughNarcissus in Bloom is a short history of the self portrait, beginning with Renaissance painters like Albrecht Drer, Rembrandt and Caravaggio, through to photographers and celebrities like Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian, Lee Friedlander and Herv Guibert. Analysing the ways that so many artists have regarded their own image, how might the age of the selfie be considered as a time of transformation rather than stasis? By returning to the original tale