ARTH1100 History of Photography S2017

I found it interesting that men over thirty years old take more photographs of themselves than women who are over thirty years of age. However, that data coincides with the idea that women over thirty years old are increasingly more concerned with their physical appearance than younger women therefore it would make sense that they would take less photographs of their selves. According to the data, younger people in Sao Paulo take more selfie photographs than in New York City. Also people who are not calm in Sao Paulo appear to close their eyes more in comparison to people in New York City.

Photography has play a very significant role in today’s world. Due to the steadfast development of technology, many people carry their smart electronic devices where ever they go. Therefore, selfies become extremely popular across the countries. In the website, “SELFICITY,” describes the findings about people taking selfies of themselves in five different cities. One of the interesting fact that impress me is that women strike more expressive poses than men by 50% for head tilt angle. I think the reason to this is because women want to show that they have extreme power as men do. Additionally, what surprise me the most is the amount of smiling faces in New York City is (.57 average smile score) which is middle of other cities. Lastly, the proportion of women taking selfies in each city also catch my attention is the amount of smiles in Bangkok has (.68 average smile score) which consider as the highest score when compare to the other cities. However, the percentage of women taking selfies in this city is the least.

By researching over the selfiecity website, I think that people do not smile naturally is the most interesting. They do smile when they taking the selfies, but I feel like they just act or pretend to smile happily on the camera. From the data, we can see that women are more likely to take their selfies than men. This data doesn’t surprise me because ladies always like to take selfies and they want to show their beautiful image to public. For example, you may see there are some beautiful selfies on Facebook moment all the time when your female friend going to the party. Moreover, the data demonstrates that many older people like to take selfies in NYC than other cities. Especially, there are more older age men than women post the selfies to public. I believe that is the way how they show they are being single and looking for his love.

Selfiecity is such a unique website, they investigate and study people selfies from five different cities around the world.  Each city has their own style of taking selfies. Composition, emotion, setting and much more plays a major part in their self-portraits. In all five cities Bangkok, Berlin, Moscow, New York, and Sao Paulo females take more selfies than men. What surprised me the most was the amount of females that smile in their selfies from all five cities. Sao Paulo has the most joyful female selfies; Bangkok has the second highest joyful female selfies. Another interesting fact would be that Bangkok selfies have a much younger community that post selfies, whereas NYC has that oldest.

Selfiecity finding that i found most interesting was the average smile score presented in the five cities. Its quite shocking to see that Bangkok rating is 0.68, whereas the lowest city Moscow only had  0.53. Another intriguing fact is that only 5% were considered selfies, the reminder of the pictures were images of peoples friends and pets. The major difference between New York and the rest of the 4 cities is that the people taking selfies are much older.In other countries women of young age are more interested in taking selfies, but New York males post more selfies than women in Bangkok.  When looking at the statistics,  we see that New York is the median of the 5 cities in the amount of women doing selfies, extreme poses and smiling.

Some of the findings on Selfie City that interested me were on the data page. The majority of people who take selfies are women. In Moscow, there are 4.6 more female taking selfies than male. Another thing that surprised me were that the average age of males taking selfies in each city were older than females. Here in New York, the average age of female taking selfies 24.3, compared to average age of male which is 26.7.  People in Bangkok tend to smile more in their selfies compared to other cities, and it makes me wonder if culture has anything to do with selfie photos.