Selfie Waves
A video on YouTube. In Explainers, a Krater category.
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Michael Stevens explores the cultural and photographic history of the selfie, from ancient Egyptian self-portraits and the first daguerreotypes to MySpace, Instagram, and modern smartphone culture.
From the video
Answers: Who took the first selfie and how did selfies evolve?
- selfie history
- self-portraits
- daguerreotypes
- Hiromix syndrome
- arm-extended selfie technique
- mirror selfies
- anachronyms in language
What it concludes
- The oldest known self-portrait was sculpted over 3,000 years ago by Pharaoh Akhenaten's first chief royal sculptor, Bek.
- Robert Cornelius created the first photographic self-portrait in Philadelphia in October 1839.
- Hiromix popularized taking casual daily life photos of oneself, helping usher in the fourth wave selfie culture.
- The word selfie originated with the spelling 'selfy' on an Australian science forum in September 2002.
- Oxford Dictionaries declared 'selfie' the word of the year in 2013 after usage jumped 17,000%.
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