People Who Display Framed Photos of Themselves

I once worked for a celeb hairdresser that had a photo of himself on his back, bedazzled with Swarovski crystals.

OP = Joe Gillis

Framed photos of any kind are less common than they used to be. I wouldn’t draw any conclusions from it if it were one photo. Or even a few photos among many group photos. They could very well be gifts or photos that are meaningful to the subject because of the person who took them.

A big professional photo displayed above a fireplace or some other prominent location is where I would draw the line.

People post photos of themselves all the time, so I’d tend to cut people doing it in the privacy of their homes a little slack.

A photo of just the individual on display at work is sort of odd, but I wouldn’t read into it.

I neither trust nor distrust such a person, but there are no photos of myself or my partner in the house.

I have a few favorite photos of my partner stuck in a drawer and cycle them out at my desk in a room with many scores of things hung on the walls. They are positioned at eye level for when I sit at the desk, otherwise people could some time in the room and not notice them. There are a few portraits of each of us in the house, but paintings or sculpture. It´s not until you studied them closely that you you might make the connection and ask, 'Is that a portrait of you?'

There are a very few paper photos of friends or family, just a small drawer in my desk, but lots of digital images saved. If the TV had switched to screensaver mode (linked to my digital photo archive), you might spot a photo of one or both of us, but you'd be a very long time waiting for one.

Both my partner and I take a lot of photos, but practically no selfies, and the occasional photo of one another when accidnetally in front of some great background or when the light is doing something special or it's some unique opportunity. Neither of us like the idea of having framed or otherwise displayed photos of oursleves, our family, our friends. We both come from families who have the displays of milestone framed photos and school and other photos stuck in albums and displayed on bookshelves and on walls and on furniture, but for me it seems vain and posed and uninteresting, so none of that.

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A graduation or a photo of them winning something is fine. Posing with your pet(s) is borderline. A glamour shot of the person is suspect.

I have a portrait of myself done for work when I was in my late 20’s. Of course I kept it. I was young, had more hair and looked great, it was taken by Bachrach, and it cost a buttload of 1970’s dollars. It will be used for my obituary.

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This is worse.

I have very few framed photos- just a dozen collected on top of a bookcase of me and my partner with family. But we got an aura digital frame and upload pics to that. Most of pics of the two of us on trips, holidays etc some Are solo selfies where I was doing something special and want to remember the time. I sit. Post a lot of selfies to insta like some folk so I think this is ok. More for my viewing / memories than anyone else

What else would I put on MY walls.

No solo shots but photos with celebrities. It is completely unrelated to.the work we do.

There's a girl on FB that I grew up with in the 70s/80s who's FB page is nothing but selfies. Not duckface poses but ones where she's sitting in front of flowers and things like that. No friends, pets, family members or sunsets. Just her picture.

We should definitely condemn those people - how dare they do something that's none of our business and completely harmless!

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[quote]This is worse.

Not as bad as your formatting, though.

I come from a family of narcissists. Years ago, my grandmother showed me a gift she had received from my cousin -- a comically large portrait of himself -- like, slightly smaller than 40"x60". He's a professional tennis line judge. Grandma smiled awkwardly and said she had no idea what to do with it.

I've never seen anyone with framed pictures of themselves outside of movies or television.

I know a man who has a large black and white photo of him and his male partner hanging on the wall in his living room. It is of them kissing while they are nude; it's actually quite beautiful, but I would think it might be more appropriate for a bedroom.

Allen Ginsberg had this one up in his house. Almost classy enough to pass muster.

When I was a summer associate at a Wall Street law firm, I sat in an office with a first year associate. She was in the bankruptcy department. She told me that one of the star partners had a bunch of photos on his desk of his family, which was ironic, because he never talked about his wife and kids, or seemed to be home.

But what she thought was really off about them was that he was prominently featured in so many of them. She said she would never have photos including herself on her desk.

I actually did some work for that attorney when I related through the bankruptcy department that summer, on a case he was working on, the Bucyrus bankruptcy. Small potatoes research and some due diligence. He was very dismissive of the work I had done, but my office mate reassured me that’s the way he was with all of the associates, not just me or summers.

The partner was John Gellene, the only attorney who would be imprisoned for conflict of interest in the practice of law. He failed to disclose that his law firm represented the creditors of Bucyrus and there weren’t adequate firewalls in place. So my office mate’s instincts were right about him. A whole book was written about the scandal.

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I can't understand people who do this in their own homes. How big is the ego?

I once was in the office of a guy who had two photos of himself with supreme court justices. (Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg). I thought that was an odd choice until I realized it was an ultra cynical move (picking one left wing, one right wing) to appeal to various clients. Guy was a slimeball in general.

R19 What a long and barely-relevant story.

Harvard’s Henry Lewis Gates is 5’5” on a good day.

The oil portrait of him in the reception area outside his office is ten feet high.

This is over my fireplace. What's wrong with that?

I have photos of friends and family on top of my dresser and I like looking at them every morning. I've lost so many people over the years that it provides a great deal of comfort at times. There are none of just me (wait, maybe one?) but I think people enjoy seeing photos of themselves in others' houses. I would never have anything at work.

Had started working at a new office. Lots of offices on a long, rectangular floor, including lots of window-less, interior offices (including mine). Anyway, we would all check out each other's offices to see what each had done (refrigerator, couch, one guy even had a twin bed).

I walked into a coworker's office. She was a very attractive woman. She had, on her wall, a portrait of herself (maybe 18 by 24 inches). I looked at it and said Wow. She looked at my face as I was looking at the portrait and she immediately took down the portrait from her wall.

(I'm guessing the look on my face was like "what the hell" (why do you have a picture of yourself on the wall). I was more surprised than disgusted.)

“I my very proud of my home. Ditto, how I look.”

I have my 9th-grade school picture framed and on my wall because it was the only picture I've ever smiled showing my teeth. I was very insecure about my crooked teeth, and the day I brought it home, my mom and her friend who came to visit proceeded to tell me how stupid they thought I looked. I am definitely smelling cookies in that pic.

My mother laughed and shamed me for having a picture of myself in my room (age 10 or something like that).