1. Is there a difference between self-portraits we may take of ourselves on a day-to-day basis and those more contrived by artist’s and professional photographers?
The difference between this two types of portraits is basically that the ones we take of ourselves are more for showing ourselves off to other people, it is kind of a narcissistic thing and the portraits made by artists are more elaborated and sometimes they actually reflect something more than the person itself because sometime those portraits convey something to the viewer.
2. If you haven’t seen the idea of taking photos of yourself as self-portraiture, for what reason do you record your life and times through the taking of self-portraits or, why do you think people in general feel so compelled to take photos of themselves?
Personally I love taking pictures when I’m with people like my friends just to keep a memory of the moment we were sharing. When I take pictures of myself is just because of egocentrism.
I think people take pictures of themselves just to show how they want to be seen by the rest of the world, to show themselves as confident people and sometimes to get some flattery.
3. One of the sections in the painting article dealt with the self-portrait as self-study. Could this also be extended to the self-portraits we see in social media? Are people really studying themselves or, is it still the narcissistic love of our own image?
I think nowadays just a few professional photographers take pictures of somebody with the intention of transmitting a message, I think the rest of them just take pictures of models to show their beauty. If photographers would want to transmit something they would take pictures of themselves or something like that.
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