ABSTRACT
B. Foucault saw photographs as fascinating smugglers, hybrids and hermaphrodites, images of the transition between essentially strictly separate and independent areas. If H. Bredekamp attempts to transfer the "Speech Act Theory" onto visual culture within his "Image Act Theory," then it will truly be turned on its head, as Lambert Wiesing has pointed out. A. Sekula's analysis of the praxeology, the methodology of photography cannot be understood without taking this general culture-critical impetus into account. Many self-portraits in history of photography look seemingly similar to selfies–self-portraits in mirrors, self-portraits made while holding the camera in one's extended arm, etc. But these images are not selfies because they were not "taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media" as per the definition. In Selfiecity and Selfiecity London, the results of face recognition software were combined with human input, tagging all selfies as "male" or "female."
