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ajgottli@illinois.edu Nov 24, 2013 10:57 pm

I love how you put this contemporary trend into a much deeper historical perspective!  Once we have a new word for something, it's easy to imagine that the practice it describes is new too.  This post cures us of that sort of amnesia.

 

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kristinlems@yahoo.com Dec 1, 2013 10:17 pm

But surely Frida Kahlo is the ultimate "selfie artist!"  A whole painting career built around her intense, unibrowed face for all to ponder...surely part of her late-developing fame is the fact that her selfies made it easy to identify who painted the painting! 

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