Striking many poses.

• Position: Self-portraits - Brief article

Self-portraits have become a kind of fork art for the digital age, especially among young people. Framing themselves at arm's length, teenagers snap their own pictures and pass the camera to friends at school, e-mail the images, or upload them to the Internet. Amber Davidson, 19, a freshman at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., says she puts a tot of time and thought into the serf-portraits she posts online. "I don't want people to think I'm sitting there taking all these pictures of myself," she says, "even though I kind of am." With the increasing availability of cheap, lightweight digital cameras, striking a pose and sharing it...