ME + CO: The Selfies: 1972 - 2017 | Jean Pigozzi

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“We live in the age of the selfie,” Jerry Saltz wrote in 2014. A few short years ago, people were still primarily interested in recording what was in front of them. Then, all of a sudden, hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people were turning their cameras around and taking pictures of themselves. “It’s possible that the selfie is the most prevalent popular genre ever,” Saltz ventured. Most of us would therefore be surprised to learn that Jean Pigozzi― neither an American nor a millennial―has been taking selfies for more than forty years. “There were people doing self portraits for a…