Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture
“This is me” we tend to say about photographs of ourselves—which is remarkable given that the image with which we identify is a two-dimensional visual taken from a very specific moment in our past. And yet the image is interpreted as an icon or an index of our present being. The problem of seeing si...
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University of Alberta
2020-03-01
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| description | “This is me” we tend to say about photographs of ourselves—which is remarkable given that the image with which we identify is a two-dimensional visual taken from a very specific moment in our past. And yet the image is interpreted as an icon or an index of our present being. The problem of seeing similarity where there is difference seems to be increasing with the rise of hobby models—a niche demographic made up of mostly women between the age of 16 and 40, who enjoy posing for the camera even if they aren’t getting paid for it. This paper investigates the social and psychological motivations behind hobby modelling in the German-speaking context. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7ba489453d2f4aecad5cb95c7719f9fe2022-12-21T23:17:14ZengUniversity of AlbertaImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies1918-84392020-03-0110265–8865–8810.17742/IMAGE.OI.10.2.329446Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her PictureMaja Jerrentrup0Ajeenkya DY Patil University, Pune“This is me” we tend to say about photographs of ourselves—which is remarkable given that the image with which we identify is a two-dimensional visual taken from a very specific moment in our past. And yet the image is interpreted as an icon or an index of our present being. The problem of seeing similarity where there is difference seems to be increasing with the rise of hobby models—a niche demographic made up of mostly women between the age of 16 and 40, who enjoy posing for the camera even if they aren’t getting paid for it. This paper investigates the social and psychological motivations behind hobby modelling in the German-speaking context.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/imaginations/index.php/imaginations/article/view/29446identityimageportraitphotography |
| spellingShingle | Maja Jerrentrup Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies identity image portrait photography |
| title | Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture |
| title_full | Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture |
| title_short | Identity without Similarity: The Relation between the Individual and Her Picture |
| title_sort | identity without similarity the relation between the individual and her picture |
| topic | identity image portrait photography |
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