I wandered through crowds at the Glyptoteket Tuesday... Not surprising we are selfie obsessed today. It is in our evolution, our genes. Cast back a few millennia into art and you can fish out a crazy array of Egyptian, Greek and Roman busts... And some more recent ones as well from the last couple centuries... Idol/ideal, legacy and posterity.
We have changed quickly in terms of immediacy - and I suspect the legacy part will change too. Curious what will happen with all these photo portraits, silver halide and electrons and the turnover of technology from CD-rom to portable hard drives, clouds - from magazine to e-zine, slide to digital... Losing touch with the tangible, embracing the ephemeral. Impermanence the only permanence. Perhaps it's a good thing...
all images ©Bennett Barthelemy January 2017
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