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Nov 17, 2022Liked by Andy Adams

I take them because they can be quite fun using shadow play without going into full selfie mode.

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I've never heard of it. Now I know I'm going to try it. :)

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Andy Adams

I can say that I rarely make these because my photography is about the world outside myself. Shadow selfies are about connecting the landscape with me and being about me. In an image, there is The Thing Itself and its relation to something else in the frame that creates the narrative of the image. When you create a shadow selfie, the subject is shifted to your presence in the frame to some degree. When you look a Lee Friedlander photo, there is what the picture is about, what it is also about, and sometimes, Lee. When I make shadow selfies, I'm expressing the importance of my relationship to the subject rather than the relationship of the subject to a sunset or a passing cloud. My intent shifts from trying to invoke some feeling in the viewer to trying to let the viewer understand my feeling.

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Nov 18, 2022Liked by Andy Adams

You get to experience yourself out and about in the world in an unexpected way.

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It never occurred to me. Gonna give it a try.

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Am I too late for this? I’ve got dozens

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Less risk than a double exposure?

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Are you still accepting and showing people's shadow selfies?

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Nov 20, 2022Liked by Andy Adams

I don't, but my fave is Olive Cotton's 1935 'The Photographer’s Shadow' which includes her partner and fellow photographer Max Dupain who would go on and take the infamous 1937 Sunbaker photo

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deletedNov 16, 2022Liked by Andy Adams
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