Video | World’s newest, biggest selfie magnet is ... a selfie museum in Los Angeles
Get your smartphones ready for some super selfie action at a new interactive exhibition that explores the history and cultural phenomenon of snapping a photo of yourself
There is an art to taking the perfect selfie, from the angle and the focus to cropping out that pesky outstretched arm and, above all, the smile.
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In a celebration of self-portraits in the social media age, Tommy Honton and Tair Mamedov opened the Museum of Selfies in Los Angeles last Sunday – an interactive exhibition exploring the history and cultural phenomenon of snapping a photo of yourself.
And for those who think that if a moment wasn’t photographed it might as well have not happened, the good news is that at the Museum of Selfies, selfies are compulsory.
Visitor Lori Nguyen, a 45-year-old event planner, said she doesn’t take selfies very often because “I’m not, like, super young.” But another visitor, Nina Crowe, said she takes “one a day”.
Neither missed the chance to snap several at the Museum of Selfies, including at an exhibit mimicking the rooftop of Los Angeles’ Wilshire Grand Centre, the city’s tallest building.
In reality, the exhibit features a backdrop photograph of the “ground below” printed on a small platform, from which sprouts a tube that looks like the building’s antenna complete with a red signalling beacon. Add a selfie stick, an “I’m afraid of heights” grimace and a click – and the result is very realistic.
