This is an article about how people of the public crowded around Hillary Clinton, and took pictures, not of Hillary, but with Hillary - selfies. Jonathan Jones talks about how selfies have changed people and how they behave. For example, he says, "If the image this picture seems to present is true, we’re all damned. Looking lost and ignored as people turn their backs on her to preserve their own faces for posterity – me with that politician!" Jones further goes on to talk about his views about people taking selfies, "The resulting view is unflattering – not only to Hillary Rodham Clinton but the crowd. They all have their backs turned to her while they hold up phones to take pictures of … themselves". In addition, his views about people taking selfies is completely negative as he states that the people taking the pictures look 'lost' .
He further goes on to talk about how most of the people in the crowd are female, "A large group of mostly younger women all excited to be in the same picture as Hillary Clinton. They are not turning their backs on her in contempt. They are simply turning round so they can photograph themselves with her". In my opinion, I believe that Jonathan is stereotyping females with being vain and taking 'selfies', which is not true.
Furthermore, he goes on to speak about how taking selfies is the new way of marking a memorial event, as he says, "Taking a selfie has now become the natural way for many people to mark important events". In my opinion, I agree with this, due to new and digital media improving and becoming more advanced, this does mean that more and more people are becoming used to the idea of people taking selfies and looking at themselves and it has become a normal thing. However, I do disagree with Jones associating 'selfies' with females, as it's both males and females who have started to take selfies.
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