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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

'Selfish,' Kim Kardashian's book with 300 selfies, is bound for a coffee table near you

Kim Kardashian already broke the Internet. Now she’s poised to break the best-seller lists.
The reality star’s latest project — a coffee-table book of self-portraits, called “Selfish” — is her most indulgent project yet, but it’s only going to boost her $65 million brand.
"Selfish," to be published on May 20 by Rizzoli
“Every time you think the general public might be sick of Kim Kardashian, she comes back even stronger,” says Ryan Schinman, founder of Platinum Rye Entertainment, a marketing company. “Whether it’s the video game (“Kim Kardashian: Hollywood”) or this picture book, the girl is an empire. ... This is another seven-figure payday.”
A bikini shot from "Selfish" ...

The new volume of voluptuous selfies, cleavies, nudies and belfies documents her eight years in the spotlight — from her earliest brush with fame as Paris Hilton’s then-unknown sidekick in 2006 to her current status as reality TV royalty. The final shot shows the newly minted Mr. and Mrs. Kanye West’s clasped hands at their 2014 wedding.... and some help prepping for photos.
It’s easy to mock — indeed, the title almost does it for you — but this seemingly throwaway collection may end up being just as much a part of pop-art history as when Andy Warhol painted soup cans.

Indeed, two decades ago, fame meant having the best fashion photographer capture you, as in Madonna’s groundbreaking “Sex” book in 1992, shot by Fabien Baron, or the iconic Mario Testino’s collection of Kate Moss portraits in 2011.

But now, true fame is having the public be so obsessed with you that it will even buy your selfies.

Every page in the 300-photo “Selfish” album is another frame in Kardashian’s overexposure. It begins at age 3 or 4 with Kim’s very first selfie: a blurred 1984 disposable-camera shot of her with her then-baby sister Khloe, trying on mom Kris Jenner’s clip-on earrings.
“We didn’t call them selfies back then. I had no idea what I was saving, just memories, really,” Kardashian tells Harper’s Bazaar in the only interview she is doing to promote the book.
The glossy scrapbook then segues into 2006 and 2007 nights out clubbing with Hilton and bestie Brittny Gastineau. Taken together, the photos from this era aren’t just silly — they also reveal a trend: There are far more boobs than butts, which move front and center years later.



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