Selfie

A selfie enthusiast

A selfie is a self-portrait photograph. It is typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.

One of the first self-portraits was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, an American photographer. The term "selfie" was first used by photographer Jim Krause in 2005.

Selfies by animals

A black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) stole a camera, and took a photo of herself. The selfie seemed to set a legal precedent when the Wikimedia Foundation rejected a copyright claim. The ground was that a non-human could not own a copyright, and the camera owner had not taken the photo, and so also could not own the copyright. And so, the photo was not under copyright.

Selfie Media

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  Selfie von Michael Lueg im SWR1 Studio in Mainz (Radiomoderator)

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  Two subjects posing for a joint selfie

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  Selfie in a surveillance mirror

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  Selfie in a mirror in a window

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  A Japanese couple taking a selfie together, 1920s

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  Buzz Aldrin took the first EVA selfie in 1966, using a Hasselblad roll-film camera.

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  This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Big Sky" site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp.*The scene combines dozens of images taken during the 1,126th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work during Mars (Oct. 6, 2015, PDT), by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover's robotic arm.

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  "Monkey selfie" of a macaque who had picked up a camera.

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  Taking selfies is common at wedding ceremonies.

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  South Korean president Lee Myung-bak and footballer Ji So-yun