Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Early self-portraits |
| 1 | The first photographic self portrait? |
| 2 | Hippolyte Bayard: Self portrait as a drowned man (1840) |
| Self-portraits of photographers |
| 3 | Self-portraits of photographers |
| 4 | Self portraits taken with a stick, a length of string or a rubber squeeze ball and pheumatic tube opening the shutter |
| 5 | The photographer as a shadow participant |
| 6 | André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri: Self portraits |
| 7 | Hannah Maynard: Self portraits |
| Photographers who concentrate on themselves |
| 8 | Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Stills |
| 9 | Francesca Woodman: Self Portraits |
| 10 | Gillian Wearing: Album (2003) |
| 11 | Lucas Samaras: Unpentant Ego / Photo-transformations |
| 12 | Nikki S. Lee: Projects |
| 13 | Samuel Fosso: Self portraits |
| 14 | Rafael Goldchain: Familial Ground |
| 15 | Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India |
| 16 | John Coplans: Self portraits |
| 17 | Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Self-portraits |
| 18 | Clarisse d'Arcimoles: Forget Nostalgia - A Little Theatre of Self (2012) |
| 19 | Tseng Kwong Chi: Self portraits |
| Vernacular self-portraits |
| 20 | Photobooth portraits |
| 21 | Lee Godie: Photobooth self-portraits |
| 22 | Shooting gallery self portraits |
| Contemporary self-portraits |
| 23 | Introduction to selfies |
