From Self Portraits in Paint, to Photographic Images, to Selfies

Photographer and National Gallery lecturer Aliki Braine explores the invention and rise of self-portraiture from its beginning as painted faces to the obsessive documenting and displaying of our own digital images.

While 'the selfie' is being billed as a massive contemporary phenomenon, photographers did not wait for the invention of digital smart phones or selfie sticks in order to turn the camera on themselves.