Short History Of Selfie Crazyness

First, ''Selfie'' in the history of photography was recorded around 1839, which is one of the key years in the development of photography.it was made by one of the pioneers of photography, chemist Robert Cornelius from Philadelphia on the back of the photo is written '' first light image ever made,1839''. this self- portrait is also one of the first picture of the human figure . the success of this self-portrait even encouraged the younger Cornelius to open a photo shop. today, these photo's are stored in the library of congress in Washington.

With the help of ''smart'' phone, web camera or camera, daily millions of self-portraits occures in all possible situations , then this self-portraits are flooding social networks. Selfie is a term that the Oxford dictionary named '' word of the year 2013''

Today's Instagram-face book-twitter ''selfie'' has little to do with the artistic approach, they are banal photographs, often even in an unseemly posture, drunk, funny, sad, have current message, or are important for the moment they were created, as well as the reason they are added to the social network. ''selfie'' is to collect larges number of  ''likes'' and to attracts the attention of the people of the world. A larger number of ''likes'' generates higher self- esteem. That ''self '' mania gripped the world so hard that recently was opened ''selfie'' Olympics, which invited interested parties to submit crazy and dangerous ''selfies'' photographs.