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\"\"The current fad of young people taking snaps of themselves in the bathroom continues to puzzle me.<\/p>\n

Typically they use their little toy ‘smartphones,’ which\u00a0generally have a sort of hole at the back, through which they can shoot a dim photo.<\/p>\n

What is it about bathrooms that they find\u00a0so alluring? And what happens to the snaps afterwards? Do these youngsters paste them into a scrapbook or photograph album? Make postcards? They are most unappealing.<\/p>\n

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J H JOHNSON<\/p><\/div>\n

I am reminded of my old friend James Hervey Johnson, onetime city tax assessor and papaya fancier in San Diego. For most of his life he snapped a picture of himself nearly every day. Many of these he pasted into a photo album.<\/p>\n

\"\"I suggested to Hervey that he mount an exhibition of this lifetime cavalcade in one of the new avant-garde galleries in La Jolla or the Gaslamp Quarter, but he couldn’t be bothered.<\/p>\n

This is before we had toy phones that could snap pictures. Hervey never photographed himself in a bathroom, I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current fad of young people taking snaps of themselves in the bathroom continues to puzzle me. Typically they use their little toy ‘smartphones,’ which\u00a0generally have a sort of hole at the back, through which they can shoot a dim photo. What is it about bathrooms that they find\u00a0so alluring? 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