This Is the World's First Selfie

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By Indo Asian News Service | Updated: 16 September 2014 22:54 IST
This Is the World's First Selfie
It may not look that jazzy but a self-portrait which dates back to the 1850s holds the record for being the world's first selfie.

The selfie of Oscar Gustave Rejlander, a pioneering Swedish Victorian art photographer and an expert in photo-montage, was recently sold at an auction at Morphets in Harrogate, North Yorkshire for 70,000 pounds.

"The owner brought the book to us with a reserve price of just 100 pounds," Liz Pepper Darling from Morphets was quoted as saying in media reports.

The selfie was discovered in a leather-bound book of 70 albumen prints by the renowned Swedish artist also known as the father of art photography.

Rejlander's wife Hallam Tennyson is also seen in the album.

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Rejlander's collaboration with renowned naturalist Charles Darwin on the work titled "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" assured him a position in the history of behavioural science and psychiatry.

He is also known for his work "The Two Ways of Life" made up of 32 negatives.

 

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