Iconic photographer David Bailey supports the rising amount of photographers who are attached to their phone and produce photos through Instagram and Afterlight. Selfies though? That’s a different story.
Opening up to The Evening Standard the icon said,“It makes no difference. In the past, every journalist had a tape-recorder. It didn’t make them Tolstoy. I didn’t even know what a selfie was until six months ago. I thought it meant masturbation. Although of course it is masturbation of a sort.”
Bailey’s the second fashion guru to compare selfies to the idea of self-love, with Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld recently describing them as ‘electronic masturbation’. “They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small,” he told The Guardian. What do you think of the humours mix up? Leave a comment below.
