Prêt-à-rapporter: Lights, camera, fashion
The return of Helmut Newton’s Photo Machine allows girls to celebrate their inner exhibitionist, says Sarah Mower
Not nearly enough has been said about the massive subcultural phenomenon that has grown out of the photographic narcissism of girls.
Put it this way: the most fought-over toy in our house is my digital camera, which is put to heavy use practically every evening and weekend, taking hundreds of shots of my 15-year-old daughter and her friends pouting in various locations around London. The pictures are then swapped by email, recoloured, captioned, put on Facebook and I don’t know what. I can’t find it in me to work up much disapproval. Let’s be honest: what is more entrancing than looking at photographs of yourself, especially if you have taken them, as you see yourself, at your best, with all the uglies safely deleted? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2008/06/11/efmower111.xml
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