Craig Detweiler
The Selfies book arose from a painful incident that made national news. Do you recall the Alabama teenager whose 'smiling selfie in Auschwitz' created a firestorm on Twitter? CNN asked me to respond to the controversy she generated. (The original article and accompanying comments are here: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07...).
It was really the first time I tried to get inside the mind of an adolescent who is posting selfies rather innocently on the Internet. The fury that fell down upon this teen showed me just how wide a generation gap we were experiencing regarding selfies. I decided to enter the fray in hopes of bringing more light than heat to this timely and often vexing social arena. This book length study places today's adolescents within the long history of self-portraiture is the result. From ancient Greece and Egypt, through the Bible, and onto the Renaissance and even modern art and photography, I study the best practices of each era in hopes of offering a higher calling and deeper appreciation for how divine selfie-making can be.
It was really the first time I tried to get inside the mind of an adolescent who is posting selfies rather innocently on the Internet. The fury that fell down upon this teen showed me just how wide a generation gap we were experiencing regarding selfies. I decided to enter the fray in hopes of bringing more light than heat to this timely and often vexing social arena. This book length study places today's adolescents within the long history of self-portraiture is the result. From ancient Greece and Egypt, through the Bible, and onto the Renaissance and even modern art and photography, I study the best practices of each era in hopes of offering a higher calling and deeper appreciation for how divine selfie-making can be.
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