When 2,000 new police officers were sworn into duty in Kiev last Saturday, Ukrainians couldn’t help noticing how attractive the recruits — a quarter of them women — looked.
Selfies
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Russia Releases “Safe Selfie” Guide After String of Deaths and Injuries
Snapping selfies can have pretty serious effects, like damaging art in the quest for likes. In Russia, though, death has become a troublingly common consequence of taking selfies.
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Obamas Abandon Photo Ban, Bringing Selfies to the White House
This morning, the White House lifted its ban on cameras and photography during public tours, which signals the first time in over 40 years that images by photographers without official credentials will emerge from the famous rooms of the US president’s residence.
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Taking Selfies for College Credit
We all have those annoying social media friends whose incessant selfies seem little more than digital bragging.
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Selfie Snappers Smash Baroque Sculpture in Herculean Feat of Stupidity
On Friday two tourists visiting the northern Italian city of Cremona broke part of an 18th-century sculpture they were climbing to take a selfie.
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An Art Museum Designed for Taking Selfies
Most museums across the US and Europe have had a difficult time handling the selfie onslaught.
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Someone Made a Book of #artselfies
The selfie exists everywhere that people own smartphones. DIS Magazine’s #artselfie, published by Jean Boîte Éditions, attempts to freeze one aspect of this cultural moment — the art selfie — by parlaying its meaning into a gleaming, print-only book
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Defiant of the Future, Museums Ban Selfie Sticks
Oh, art museums. You’re so fickle — like a guy who sends a charming message on Tinder and then disappears after the first tryst.
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The #MuseumSelfie Scourge Is Upon Us
What have we done to deserve this? Today is a day that will forever be remembered as a plague on our social media feeds, a moment that ruptured our visual culture with a barrage of grainy images of people the world over visiting museums.
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Museums Should Institute No-Photo Hour, British Arts Executive Suggests
One month after the big news that London’s National Gallery now allows visitors to take photographs, the head of Arts Council England has proposed that museums institute a special hour every day when picture-taking is banned.
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Before Selfies, There Were Self-Timers
People were photographing themselves long before the advent of iPhones. A collection of proto-selfies from the mid to late 20th century come together at the Austrian Cultural Forum for the summer exhibition Self-Timer Stories, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.
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Ancient Statues Pose for Selfies
It’s one thing to take a #museumselfie with a work of art, as if to say, “yes, I was here with this artwork” or “yes, here is my reflection in the surface of this piece.” It’s another thing to make Greco-Roman statues look like they were chiseled specifically for selfie-shooting moments.
