Blondie's Chris Stein: "People should take selfies standing on their heads"
- 10 years ago
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Blondie co-founder, guitarist and occasional photographer Chris Stein thinks the popularity of selfies takes away some of the power that traditional photography often carries.
Speaking to Reuters during a preview of his new exhibition, "Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie and the Advent of Punk", Stein mused about the latest photographic trend.
"Really the thing with the selfies is, they are all so similar, I find they lose impact, you know. I see ten thousand pictures of a girl standing in the bathroom. They all become so similar that it's people should take it a little bit further and whatever, stand on their head or something."
Fellow band member, lead singer Deborah Harry, added that selfies can be viewed as a new form of aesthetic, which to some people still reveals beauty.
"As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It really is the eye and how you see things that you know reveals itself in the final
Blondie co-founder, guitarist and occasional photographer Chris Stein thinks the popularity of selfies takes away some of the power that traditional photography often carries.
Speaking to Reuters during a preview of his new exhibition, "Chris Stein/Negative: Me, Blondie and the Advent of Punk", Stein mused about the latest photographic trend.
"Really the thing with the selfies is, they are all so similar, I find they lose impact, you know. I see ten thousand pictures of a girl standing in the bathroom. They all become so similar that it's people should take it a little bit further and whatever, stand on their head or something."
Fellow band member, lead singer Deborah Harry, added that selfies can be viewed as a new form of aesthetic, which to some people still reveals beauty.
"As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It really is the eye and how you see things that you know reveals itself in the final