ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on artists' aggregation and recontextualization of personal photographs—or snapshots—which, the author argues, come to represent an unusual instance of authorial collaboration with absent and usually anonymous photographers. The author aim here is not to engage in the ongoing debates about the value or otherwise of selfies and other forms of self-branding, but rather to consider New Portraits in terms of the arguments he have developed around photography and collaboration. The work of Joachim Schmid, Penelope Umbrico, and Richard Prince obviously represents three very different approaches to "found photography", nevertheless their aggregations each explore the idea of photography in circulation. Suns has become one of the iconic artworks associated with digitally networked photography.
