From highbrow to lowbrow (and everything in between), this is what we found of interest in photo-land this week.

• We can thank Kim Kardashian for the ‘belfie’ [PetaPixel]

• More ‘selfies on a stick’ [The New York Times]

• ‘It’s interesting to see how photographs themselves become a language through the repetition of aesthetics and subjects.’ [Huck Magazine]

• What bookseller has the most popular account on Instagram? [Cool Hunting]

• ‘Contrary to popular belief, moving to Bushwick, Brooklyn, this summer does not make you an artist.’ [Brain Pickings]

• ’30 Art-Writing Clichés to Ditch in the New Year’ [artnet]

• A list of the best 44 photobooks of 2014 compiled from lists of photobooks [Fotografia Magazine]

• Face hacking [Spoon & Tamago]

• Joan Didion takes a stab at modeling [DesignTAXI]

• Our smartphone obsession in pictures [The Atlantic]