Who thought up a selfie?

Girls, at us on the website there passes the cheerful relay now of "A selfie in a mask" where we can pokreativit, show the imagination and lay out the selfie in a cosmetic mask. But recently I thought: And how long appeared also who in general was a pioneer of a photo of himself popular nowadays - a selfie? Having looked on the Internet, found here what information:

Several years ago all laughed from photos of young girls in a mirror which they posted in social networks. In society there was an opinion what silly to photograph itself also several times in the course of the day. But years so since 2013 the phenomenon gained really mass character and it just had to be taken for granted. Already it is almost impossible to tell who thought up a selfie, but we will try to find this inventor.


Who thought up a selfie and when
Very first photo of
It is necessary to address photo sources to learn who made the first photo of himself. Proceeding from photos available today, the American photographer Robert Cornelius was this person.

The picture is slightly less than two hundred years old and the level of safety leaves much to be desired. But its work is considered the first own photograph.

The term of a selfie at that time did not exist as you understand. This new word was for the first time used somewhere on open spaces of network a few years ago and after that became fashionable, as well as a way of photography.

Probably the concept "self-portrait" was considered too loud, and other word just was not in one language. Thanks to it we became witnesses of emergence and entry into use of a new word, philologists for certain would not like this Americanism.


Selfie of the most famous people
It's clear that in two centuries very many people managed to be marked out with such photos. Among them there were different famous people:

Members of the royal families;
Artists;
Writers;
Actors;
Screenwriters;
Directors;
Various famous, media people.

But at that time it was called a photograph, and had no such mass character. It is simple to find the photo of the daughter of the last emperor of Russia Nikolay of Anastasia's ll in the Internet. She became the first girl who photographed herself in a mirror.

Salvador Dalí and Ernest Hemingway are famous for the fine creations, their name was heard at least once by everyone. But very few people know that already they photographed themselves in mirrors. Both Hitchcock, and Nicholson sinned with it.

But it is very difficult to compare quality of those pictures to modern photos which can be found almost at each person on a page in social network. Those works differed in professionalism and still have not only historical, but also cultural value.

Who thought up a selfie stick?
But not always we have a mirror to remove themselves. And side or front-facing cameras sometimes leave much to be desired, in professional devices they can just be absent.

There is not always enough distance of an outstretched arm to take all necessary in focus.

A few years ago all learned about such useful invention as a stick for a selfie. Its mechanism is similar to a telescopic bludgeon or a rod - it is sliding adaptation with a clamp on the end. In a point of fixing it is enough to put the device then it is possible to move apart a stick at length necessary for you, to choose an optimum foreshortening and to take the picture.

Most often use for group photos, but fans of extreme sports "catch" amazing foreshortenings by means of this adaptation. Officially it was it is patented in the USA, two Japanese designers and inventors 30 years ago. At that time did not get special popularity, the fashion for a selfie began much later. Initially adaptation was used by professional photographers and amateur photographers.

Information on the patent is public that did not prevent the Times magazine to say that the stick for a selfie was invented only in 2014. To what source to trust – your business, "new" adaptation is only development of thirty-year prescription which began to be used a little differently.

5 advantages of self-portraits.
And in what, as a matter of fact, advantages of a selfie?

An opportunity to photograph itself independently. It is not necessary to ask someone and to worry about quality, everything is completely controlled by you.

Simplicity – is enough to turn on any device with the camera, to lift to necessary level and to press the button.

Availability. It is possible to take the picture in any place and though in the bathroom of night club. It is not necessary to look for any special background, everyday interiors quite will be suitable for this style.

Popularity. A selfie are taken by all, beginning teachers and finishing presidents. Taking the picture, you do not carry yourself to any certain group of persons.

A good opportunity to brag unostentatiously of the appearance or new acquisitions.

The fashion extended so promptly that the public did not manage to create the opinion and did not manage to have an impact – to condemn or approve. Now it is necessary to adapt to the existing realities.

Medvedev's selfie in the Elevator:

The selfie – is life-threatening?
Already in a couple of years all will forget about it, the fashion will pass and in a trend there will be something else. But a selfie – a thing not such harmless as can seem at first sight.

Glancing over news reports it is regularly possible to come across news that someone died as a result of accident in attempt to take the original picture. In the majority school students who try to use as the platform for a selfie of a roof of dangerous structures, transformer boxes and electric locomotives become the victims.

Despite sad consequences, still any country in the world did not support restriction of such photos. Unless Korea obliged to register each bought stick for a selfie, but that's another story.

By and large, it is rather simple to follow elementary safety rules. To remember harm of electricity, toxic agents and big height. In search of unique and really interesting opportunities for a photo, people often forget about these elementary things. Especially under the influence of alcohol.


We will never be able to tell with an accuracy of 100% who thought up a selfie. But thanks to this person our nice girlfriends had much more photos on social networks, and already for it It is necessary to tell thanks. However, not nice pictures increased too.