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Kahlo's exoticism and obsessive self-documentation resonates with non-Latinas too.
Someone later tells me that Nigerians, even by 21st-century standards, have a passion for self-documentation.
But, four decades after Rosenkrantz, Heti's cohort brings a different kind of savvy to the project of self-documentation.
For one thing, there's the usual business about our "reality-based" age, our era of endless self-documentation.
But her photographs, like the dreamy double exposures featured above, capture a visual wit, free-wheeling inventiveness, and methodical self-documentation that betray a prodigious creative spirit.
Yet his fascination with the flow of experience seems modern: it foreshadows our own relentless self-documentation in images, words and video clips.
The yeasty, fizzing, combination of social media, instant gratification culture and constant public self-documentation poured the way for Sober October.
He's a macho young intellectual whose love life is crashing because his efforts at self-documentation put his girlfriend (Eileen Dietz) in compromising situations.
His camera catches a stranger in a bookstore (Lili Bordán), who takes offense at first but then decides to join him in his orgy of self-documentation.
Such self-documentation is nothing new, of course, not in this age of social media, of Twitter and Facebook and Instagram.
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