{"id":5156,"date":"2014-03-04T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5156"},"modified":"2014-03-04T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T18:41:16","slug":"early-selfie-1865","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5156","title":{"rendered":"Early Selfie (1865)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a discussion on Humanist about <em>selfies<\/em> and Emma Clarke on behalf of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dh.tcd.ie\/letters1916\/\">Letters 1916 Project<\/a> team posted a link to this holding of the National Library of Ireland, <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogue.nli.ie\/Record\/vtls000183913\">Augusta Caroline Dillon and Luke Gerald Dillon with camera on tripod reflected in a large mirror<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The two were apparently skilled amateur photographers who experimented with photographs like this. If one goes beyond photographs to paintings, I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Meninas\">Las Meninas<\/a> would qualify as a selfie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a discussion on Humanist about selfies and Emma Clarke on behalf of the Letters 1916 Project team posted a link to this holding of the National Library of Ireland, Augusta Caroline Dillon and Luke Gerald Dillon with camera on tripod reflected in a large mirror. The two were apparently skilled amateur photographers who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=5156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Early Selfie (1865)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5157,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5156\/revisions\/5157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}