The Fall Of Selfie:Sacred Art Turns To Popular Culture

With the emergence of human consciousness,the attention of human beings to "self"comes into being.The network selfie is the best way for the public to pay attention to self now.But the selfie is not a pure Internet product.Its predecessor can be traced back to the self-portraits that appeared in the Renaissance.For hundreds of years,self portrait has been leading the fashion.It was not until the birth of photography equipment that image recording became a mechanical trick.Expensive photographic equipment and complicated professional technology still keep selfie photography sacred and scarce.Until modern technology simplified photography into a simple operation that can be operated with one click,online selfies took the first step to become popular culture.It is not surprising that we should pay more attention to the research of selfie online today.So what is it to promote the record of personal image from sacred art to popular culture?What function has lost and what meaning has been given to the network selfie after the downgrade?In order to answer these questions,this paper,on the basis of combing the path of human's exploration of "self" vertically,combined with Mikhail Bakhtin's carnival theory,Roland Barthes' mythology,subculture and "self" research,explores the reasons behind its shift to popularity,and the impact of this decline in artistic behavior on society and people.For this purpose,self portrait works,self portrait photography works and network selfie pictures are all included in the research scope of this paper;in order to explore the social function of network self portrait as a popular culture,network self portrait culture is also included in the research object scope.Among them,literature research is mainly to collect,organize and analyze the research results of domestic and foreign scholars in related fields,so as to establish research ideas.Text analysis refers to the collection of typical self portraits and self photography as well as selfies on the Internet as research texts to explore the different spiritual connotations behind different images.This paper is divided into five parts:the first part briefly summarizes the research background and significance of this study,and briefly summarizes the research status,research methods and objects.In the second part,we observe the network selfie,self portrait and self photography in a unified vertical space-time,and find that the accessibility given by technology makes the rare and sacred opportunity to touch the eternal through image visualization cheap,and the network selfie also loses the elite cultural color and the nature of art tightly combined with the general public.The third part explores the reasons for the fall of selfie.It is found that the social call of mass carnival,narcissism and the expansion of self-consciousness play a key role.The fourth part explores the social functions of online selfies by combining mythology and subculture research.It is found that under the guidance of image rhetoric,online selfies have become a modern myth that can be used flexibly by the general public,but also become the object of mainstream cultural discipline.And play its role at the individual,group,and social levels.The fifth part summarizes this article and analyzes the dilemma behind online selfies.