Selfie : the changing face of self-portraits
Brooks, Susie2016
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'Selfies' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team's selfie in 2014, you can't open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the selfie stick, and camera phones, have helped make the selfie a global trend, so you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a modern trend. But in fact, the first known selfies date from about 40,000 years ago and are hand stencils, discovered on a cave wall in Indonesia. 'Selfie' charts the progress and the development of the self portrait, from Indonesian caves, through famous self-portrait artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso and the invention of the camera, to iconic modern selfies such as the 2014 Oscar photograph.
Main title:
Selfie : the changing face of self-portraits / Susie Brooks
Author:
Brooks, Susie, author
Imprint:
London : Wayland, 2016.
Collation:
48 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9780750294027 (hbk)
Dewey class:
704.92409704.924J750704704.92
Local class:
704.92409J704.942
Language:
English
BRN:
1145921