Who Took The First Selfie?

Who Took The First Selfie?
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SOURCES:

White House tour social media ban: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tourist-selfies-white-house/story?id=32156132

Bek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bek_(sculptor)
https://egypt-museum.com/stele-of-sculptor-bek-with-his-wife-taheret/
https://ib205.tripod.com/bek.html

Chauvet cave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave

Selfie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie
“Exploring the Selfie”: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57949-8
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/whats-the-difference-between-a-selfie-and-a-self-portrait/
What’s the Difference between a Selfie and a Self-Portrait?

Selfies and the history of self-portrait photography

Chimp looking in water image: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Juvenile-chimpanzee-playing-with-his-own-reflection-in-the-water-Apes-are-known-to_fig1_7689692

Smithsonian Magazine article on Cornelius: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-the-first-selfie-ever-180948114/

Smithsonian archive page for Fitz’s selfie: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_694883

Hippolyte Bayard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Bayard

“Is Cereal Soup?” Vsauce video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9ak89FwYeI

MV Lobethal: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._V._Lobethal

Mirror selfie from Ginnigan on reddit: https://i.imgur.com/zJJwQGF.png

Byron extended arm selfie: https://vintagenewsdaily.com/these-amazing-self-portraits-by-joseph-byron-may-be-the-first-selfies-ever-made/

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchess_Anastasia_Nikolaevna_of_Russia
https://pagesix.com/2017/04/25/anastasia-was-the-kardashian-of-her-day-says-broadway-star/

Perkins teenage self-portrait: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/william-henry-perkin

early selfie sticks: https://pastebin.com/Qr66ppGQ

Byron “usie”: https://www.fastcompany.com/3026832/this-might-be-the-first-selfie-in-photographic-history

Jhoane Baterna-Pateña: http://www.baterna-patena.com/

Historical images re-imagined as selfies: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/historical-photo-selfies_n_4310424

Vivian Maier: http://www.vivianmaier.com/

instant cameras:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_camera
https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/land-instant-photography.html

Michael Collins’ reverse-selfie: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/a11_h_44_6642.html

First selfie-stick patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4530580

Lester Wisbrod:


https://www.vice.com/en/article/nekyq8/candid-photos-with-famous-people-by-the-unofficial-inventor-of-the-selfie

Hiromix:

https://sabukaru.online/articles/hiromix-shaping-the-identity-of-90s-japanese-female-youth

Seventeen Girl Days



http://www.photoarts.com/journal/romano/hiro/
Blog Post 6: Hiromix
https://www.papercoffin.com/writing/articles/coerced.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromix

First camera phone picture:

1997: Birth of the Camera Phone

“Here I Am Taking My Own Picture” (nytimes) 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/19/fashion/sundaystyles/here-i-am-taking-my-own-picture.html

Oldest recorded use of “seflie”:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3061118/Australia-revealed-invented-word-selfie-2000-Aussie-phrases-words-added-Oxford-Dictionaries.html
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/selfie-etymology-an-australian-man-takes-a-photo-of-his-lip-after-falling-down-drunk-but-he-didn-t-coin-the-word.html
(archive of forum post): https://web.archive.org/web/20040117090107/http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/archives/archive32/newposts/169/topic169861.shtm

Aussie slang:

Small Poppy Syndrome: Why are Australians so Obsessed With Nicknaming Things?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminutives_in_Australian_English
https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/australian-slang-soz-or-wuz/11335542

Australian English: A Totes Amazeballs Lingo

“selfie” as word of the year:

Word of the Year


https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-24992393

Anachronym: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misnomer#Anachronym

“The Return of the Selfie” (New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-return-of-the-selfie

Kardashian belfie pic: https://www.instagram.com/p/fjw59uuS7b/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=06354636-71c2-4f46-b660-6db9127561dd

Belfie stick: http://belfiestick.com/

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additional images: https://pastebin.com/ypBQHiG4

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  1. I wouldnt call older photos "the selfie" they are self portraits.
    I asociate the word "selfie" with society as a whole in termas that it representes the egocentrism of people and availability of devices to everione and they use it to make so many pictures of themself that is so natcisistic its never been like that in history.

    So id much reather associate "selfie" with 21 century.

  2. I was thinking about time and was thinking theoretically if space, matter, and time are things mixed together which came first. Obviously time. So what was time before space and matter? Before it had anything to be relative too? Would it be a singular moment frozen? Or would it have exsited longer before space and matter where ever created. Time for us seems to be moving but what if there was nothing else but time. What would it be? Would it feel like a single moment frozen or feel as if time where still passing?

  3. As An Anarcho-Communist I view the case of Anastasia as the perfect reminder to never let ideology let you justify the inhuman…she was a kid, privileged through no fault of her own, who tended to wounded soldiers, and was shown the worst of humanity because a black and white viewing of ideology proclaimed her guilty and took away her humanity. The selfies hammered the point home enough to bring tears to my eyes, Not a Vsause commented I expected to make but wanted to share.

  4. Great video. But I do think the whole "organism who is self aware" thing is far more fascinating than just "selfie culture" and should have maybe leaned into that more but still, vsauce is best youtuber

  5. This is so nostalgic. I used to watch his space videos and this is when I was clueless about space. I didn't even know how many planets their were and what planets were. He basically taught me all about them. Thank you for everything Michael. 😭😭

  6. At 17:10 when you say:’’… it’s just Me looking at You’’ I feel that there is a layer missing because you are looking at someone who chose how you will see them, or which side of them is showing in the selfie.
    ‘’It’s just You looking at how I want You to see Me’’.

  7. I decided to look at some other paintings by Judith Leyster. She also seems to be one of the very first artists to paint people smiling. Even her self-portrait is smiling somewhat.

  8. Are you finally done with the youtube originals failure? I hope they offered you a bunch of money, because you were already making incredible money before they took you off the platform and put you behind a paywall, and made you do shows they thought of – which sucked

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