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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Perry Rose on June 01, 2019, 08:44:28 AM

Title: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Perry Rose on June 01, 2019, 08:44:28 AM: Could be the first selfy. Taken with a Kodak Brownie in 1966.
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Brett Buck on June 01, 2019, 09:02:35 AM: Not a chance, Van Eyck has you beat by about 600 years:

(https://stunthanger.com/smf/open-forum/off-topic-but-could-be-a-first/?action=dlattach;attach=299529;image)

If you want to limit it to photographs. 1839:

(https://stunthanger.com/smf/open-forum/off-topic-but-could-be-a-first/?action=dlattach;attach=299533;image)

But arguably, it's more like 10,000 years:
(https://i.cbc.ca/1.1491428.1379032087!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_1180/hi-hand-art-852.jpg)

Brett
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Perry Rose on June 01, 2019, 01:53:23 PM: None of the above was taken by the person in the photo. So, yes chance.
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Brett Buck on June 01, 2019, 05:24:35 PM: Quote from: Perry Rose on June 01, 2019, 01:53:23 PM
None of the above was taken by the person in the photo. So, yes chance.

I am not sure why you say that, Van Eyck in a mirror, Cornelius with a remote release, hands by the guy holding his hand against the wall and spitting paint out at it.

Self-portraits have been a part of art since it was possible to do it.

Brett

p.s. If you want to limit to hand-held selfies with a snapshot camera, this is about 120 years old, along with an example of others doing it:
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Dan McEntee on June 01, 2019, 05:32:39 PM: Taking a self portrait into a mirror has been around a while. I seem to recall seeing photos of Jackie Kennedy, before she was married, that she took with a 35mm camera shooting into a full length mirror. That would have been in the 50's at least? I think it was her. It wasn't about selfies necessarily, but was about her early years before marrying. I think she did some modeling and photography work. Others may have practiced this also, especially the artsie photographers in the 50's.
Type at you later,
Dan McEntee
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: EddyR on June 02, 2019, 05:07:50 AM: Perry Maybe the oldest living selfy? Maybe not but still a fun topic,thanks for posting.
I wonder when the first cell phone selfy was taken.
EddyR
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: Perry Rose on June 02, 2019, 05:20:41 AM: I see a lot of photo shopping going on in those other photo's. Kinda like the photos of ghosts and UFO's.
Title: Re: Off topic but could be a first.
Post by: FLOYD CARTER on June 02, 2019, 11:19:35 AM: I took a 35mm selfie in a mirror back in 1955. Wearing my slick military uniform with all my medals and such.