Exposure: The Public Self Explored

Abstract

This chapter captures a changed “structure of feeling” in contemporary culture that, according to the author, is best encapsulated through the word and concept of “exposure”. Exposure, conceptually, is a way to express what we are collectively experiencing individual by individual and individual to individual. The chapter is divided into sections which pick up on each of the etymological origins of the word exposure, to help identify both the various contemporary meanings of the term and their relationship to the history of the exposed image, and then continues with an exploration of how that particular form of exposure relates to and has led to our current moment of the ubiquity of the exposed public self. Digital technology related to photography, publicity and the emergence of glamour, self-branding, and paparazzi photography are also discussed.

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