Are Selfies An Important New Art Form?
Not really: just look at Parmigianino’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” left, which was painted in 1523-24. Yet Jerry Saltz makes the case for the selfie in 2014: “It’s become a new visual genre — a type of self-portraiture formally distinct from all others in history. Selfies have their own structural autonomy — a big deal for art.â€
