Experimental Selfies: Students Respond to Edvard Munch’s Photography

Norway’s most famous painter, Edvard Munch, also experimented with photography. Exploiting faulty camera practices like light leaks and double exposures, he created revealing self-portraits that documented his life while exploring the boundaries of this new art medium.
Now, over a century later, the National Nordic Museum has partnered with four Seattle high schools in this virtual exhibition that asks AP Photography students to respond to Munch’s work with their own self-portraits. Students took a virtual tour of The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography, on view at the Museum through January, with curator Pat Berman. Then, as part of their advanced placement studies, they created portraits that responded to Munch’s process and self exploration.

https://www.nordicmuseum.org/exhibition/experimentalselfies