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Friday, December 14, 2012 at

Self portraits

Do you ever take vacation or party photos with one arm awkwardly extended? Well, a Cape Town ad agency tweaked iconic photos (in Photoshop) to make them look like self-portraits. Made me laugh.

(Photo montages by Lowe Cape Town, via It's Nice That)
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46 comments:

  1. Giggle! How funny:) xo

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  2. LOVE this!! Such a great idea!

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  3. made me laugh too! especially the first one!

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  4. I definitely take shameless self-portraits, usually my husband is in them, but not always!

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  6. Hey, this is my local newspaper :) Great idea :)

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  7. Shame the last picture isn't consensual.

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    1. I'm so glad you mentioned this.

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    2. Yeah, that photo is just painful to look at now.

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    3. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57491471/sailor-nurse-from-iconic-vj-day-photo-reunited/

      http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/kiss_is_just_kiss_x8pgRGiSNtEL9zbSO3TTiP

      http://www.marineinsight.com/marine/life-at-sea/recreation-and-humour/the-real-sailor-kissing-nurse-story-kissing-for-glory/

      (there are many more stories if you simply "google" it.

      It's a beautiful, pure picture with a story of hope. Don't ruin that.

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  8. It really ads an extra degree of sweetness to them, Iove it!

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  9. Do you know that last photo is a photo of sexual assault?

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  10. Haha I love the solider w/ the nurse one! That would totally be his facebook profile pic! =P

    Ergo - Blog

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  12. These are so fun! The Will & Kate one is especially believable. You know they've done that themselves at some point in their relationship!

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  14. I take them all the time.

    http://lejlatravels.blogspot.com/

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  15. Haha! Awesome!

    www.mitziemode.blogspot.dk

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  16. Me agradan muchos las fotos històricas y a la vez originales,esa de Curchill es estupenda .Optimo post deteresa

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  17. It looks so real, oh my gosh! This is hilarious!

    Mrs. Sweet

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  18. hahah! I'm so guilty of this.

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  20. As an ex-advertising art director this definitely gave me a chuckle :-) thanks

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  21. haha I love this! Too cute of Will and Kate.

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  23. haha, these are such a cute idea! ..I always make my bf do a few with me on trips and such, they are totally lame and never come out good, but who cares? :)

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  25. This is too funny!!

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  26. That last image of the sailor kissing the nurse is actually a photo of sexual assault (notice how the sailor is restraining her, and her entire body is clenched?) Sociological Images talks about it some more: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/10/05/the-kissing-sailor-photograph-an-iconic-image-of-war-not-of-romance/

    It's really disturbing.

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  27. With the last photo if you read Greta Zimmer Friedman's interview, she came back years later and met up and had drinks with the man after. I agree that it wasn't consensual but I think if she was really in trouble and feared the man then she wouldn't have had this same attitude. It is sad that they didn't both have the same feeling... although you can kind of tell with the photo, like where his left arm is... :(

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  28. Hilarious. I think it adds such an element of humanity to them, and I'm secretly noting to ensure a few silly self-portraits on our wedding day.....

    not so secretly anymore, I suppose.

    Cheryl
    http://thestylistquo.com

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  29. Hahaha! That's such a funny angle.

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  31. Haha so weird! Yea those pics never look good I guess. But what are we to do while on vacation and get tired of asking others to take pics???

    Strive to Thrive,
    Nic
    www.Thriving-Wives.com

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  32. wow this is so awesome! haha
    xo,
    nancy

    http://adoretoadorn.blogspot.com

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  33. hahahha these are so good! My friends and I do this all the time to get us all in the photo haha x

    http://currentlylovingblog.blogspot.com/

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  35. Hi,

    This is a lot of fun and so unexpected, my favorite is Prince William on his wedding day.

    Thanks for your great posts, have a Merry Holiday and a bit of time to enjoy it.

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  36. This is great! The first one threw me for a second.

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  37. wouldn't it be nice if selfies were this good ;)

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  38. Me and my sister always make fun of my mom for taking photos like this! We call it the "facebook photo," and we have at least one for every vacation we go on with her!

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  40. This is hilarious...hahaha I thought it was real for a minute.

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  41. This is a lot of funny and so unexpected.
    great...........
    Portraits in walnut creek

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