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fromItsnicethat
2 days ago
Photography

How Alfie Whiteman - pro footballer turned photographer and director - shows the turbulence of change through his vulnerable work

A former Tottenham goalkeeper turned to photography, using self-portraits from a Swedish loan period to express uncertainty and plan a parallel creative career.
fromAnOther
6 months ago
Photography

"His Writing Feels Like Life Itself": Lina Scheynius on Herve Guibert

Lina Scheynius treats photographs as dancing ghosts—diaristic, memory-driven self-portraits that preserve intimacy, blur vulnerability and performance, and extend personal memory beyond physical images.
Photography
fromItsnicethat
2 days ago

How Alfie Whiteman - pro footballer turned photographer and director - shows the turbulence of change through his vulnerable work

A former Tottenham goalkeeper turned to photography, using self-portraits from a Swedish loan period to express uncertainty and plan a parallel creative career.
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fromColossal
1 month ago

Misato Sano's Charming Wooden Dogs Are Carved With Personality

Misato Sano creates wooden dog sculptures reflecting her emotions, using unique techniques that enhance their playful appeal and deepen her self-love.
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

A Nineteenth-Century Countess's Sultry Selfies

The nineteenth-century Italian aristocrat Virginia Oldoini, Countess de Castiglione, has been cast in many lights: narcissist, courtesan, spy, exhibitionist. In the photo studio of Mayer & Pierson, she played all these parts and one more-the role of self-portraitist. For decades, Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman.
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fromArtnet News
2 months ago

Unveiling Hiba Schahbaz's Painted Paradise, Where Women Meet Mythical Beasts | Artnet News

Hiba Schahbaz creates a phantasmic world of female self-portraits across varying scales, blending Indo-Persian miniature traditions with contemporary artistic practice throughout her 15-year career.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Robert Crumb review sexual deviancy elevated to an art form

Robert Crumb's transgressive, confessional comics expose deep neuroses through filthy, angry, and darkly humorous self-portraits and exaggerated female figures.
History
fromMedievalists.net
4 months ago

Medieval Self-Portraits: Ten Artists Who Put Themselves in the Picture - Medievalists.net

Medieval self-portraits functioned as devotional, personal, and social statements revealing how individuals in the Middle Ages wanted to be seen.
Arts
fromVulture
5 months ago

How the Painter Sasha Gordon Marshaled Her Monsters

Sasha Gordon created a surreal, ambitious series of self-portrayal paintings depicting apocalyptic, often violent alter-egos, produced through obsessive, intense labor.
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fromAnOther
6 months ago

Arvida Bystrom Wants to Reinvent What We're Longing For

Arvida Byström blends Nordic nature, folklore and selfie culture with digital art and AI to interrogate influencer myth, female sexuality and online embodiment.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
7 months ago

The Original Brooklyn Selfie King

A Brooklyn man in the 1930s–40s repeatedly photographed himself, using studio techniques to craft and record his public persona, family life, and artistic practice.
Arts
fromVulture
7 months ago

The Dream Weaver

Erin M. Riley transforms weaving into confrontational, large-scale tapestries that combine intimate photographs, suburban and internet imagery to expose vulnerability and memory.
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fromJuxtapoz
7 months ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Through the "Haze" with Sasha Gordon

Sasha Gordon's hyperrealistic narrative paintings use her likeness and surreal scenarios to examine fragmented selves, memory, mythology, and psychological ambiguity through vivid, uncanny imagery.
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fromBOOOOOOOM!
8 months ago

"Acts of Observation" by Artist Rachel Gregor

Rachel Gregor's Acts of Observation presents layered, meditative figurative paintings merging observation, folklore, and uncanny color, featuring self-portraits and narrative works, on view September 6–27.
Arts
fromOpen Culture
8 months ago

How Egon Schiele Made Enduring Art from His Troubled Life and Times

Egon Schiele used an angular, economical line to render psychological self-portraits that fuse eroticism, suffering, and body distortion into a distinctive expressive voice.
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fromHypebeast
9 months ago

Ines Longevial Brings it Back to the Body in 'Skin of a Storm'

Skin of a Storm by Inès Longevial showcases a study of human form and skin through paintings, drawings, and monotype prints until August 1.
Photography
fromwww.theguardian.com
10 months ago

Suck it up! The sinister side of holiday snaps in pictures

The Tourist series by Kourtney Roy explores themes of identity and self-perception through auto-portraiture and a cinematic approach.
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