News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too

News Photography: The Year of the Selfie, Too – Reading The Pictures

If “the selfie” was the dominant theme this year in social media and personal photography, I would argue that the theme of “self absorption” (or, “the absorption of self”) applied as much to news photography.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/12/news-photography-the-year-of-the-selfie-too/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29

• how much did aesthetics draw us closer to conflict, to complexity, to diversity, to context, to editorial content versus how much did it usurp the available bandwidth with drama and the aura of significance?