First self portrait ever!

I was doing some research on self portrait studies in hopes of broadening my project ideas and insporation, came across Anna Heimkreiter's page where she gave a breif history of self portraits. Here's a link to the website, you can find her self portrait portfolio on this site as well! I love the way she manages to capture the beauty of nature in her portraits. https://wherewonderwaits.com/self-portrait-photography/

Here's the link to some more information about Robert Cornelius's first ever "selfie". I found the definition of selfie interesting as well, who knew "selfie" was the 2013 word of the year??!

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/robert-cornelius-self-portrait-the-first-ever-selfie-1839/

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