Peter Nohrnberg

Photographer, Poet, Critic
Pre-selfie Selfies
Location: Cambridge, MA
Nationality: USA
Biography: Peter Nohrnberg is a scholar of literary modernism, cultural critic, poet, and photographer.  He has been taking photographs since he was an adolescent, and is currently a member of the Boston Photographic Resource Center, where he has... MORE
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Pre-selfie Selfies
Copyright Peter Nohrnberg 2024
Date of Work Sep 1980 - Ongoing
Updated Sep 2021
Location Array
Topics Adolescence, boyhood, Photography, Portraiture, self-portrait, selfies, Youth
Before selfies became the habit of every teenager with a smart phone and an Instagram account, taking a self portrait with a camera required an uncanny amount of self-absorption, self-assurance, and technical knowledge.  More than simply documenting the photographer's adolescent and teenagen years, these pre-selfie selfies, all taken on film cameras and most with the aid of a self-timer and a tripod, show a young man using the camera as a mirror to explore possible selves, from punk rocker to preppie.  
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