One of the most iconic photo poses of the internet age is the self-portrait captured with an outstretched arm.
Cape Town, South Africa-based newspaper Cape Times has photoshopped historical photos as if they were taken like a selfie.
Famous Historical Photos Reinvented as Selfies
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These aerial photographs by Katrin Korfman are from a Hindu festival that involves colored pigments combined with water.
And if you want to impress your artsy coworkers, when the three photos above are displayed side by side, they form what’s called a triptych.
Aerial Photographs of Colorful Hindu Festival
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Trying to pin down an exacting definition of “contemporary photography”, an ultimate list of what’s in and what’s out, has proven to be an elusive, frustrating, and perhaps even delusional, pastime. Do we distinguish between or eliminate camera-less images, photograms, darkroom effects, collage, montage, and rephotography/appropriation? Or do we just include anything and everything that has its output as a photographic print, regardless of the intermediate processes used to make it? Where are the edges and bright lines? These kinds of questions and debates have become even more puzzling with the increasingly broad use of digital technology and the advent of countless new printing processes. The boundaries of our photographic playing field are getting murkier every day.
