The word “selfie” has exploded into mainstream culture over the past decade as more and more people around the world shoot and share self-portraits using their smartphone’s front-facing camera.
And now the selfie has just unlocked a new achievement: it has its own museum. The Museum of Selfies has opened in Hollywood, California, and it’s […]. petapixel.com
“[Advertisement for Sarony's Photographic Studies]” by Napoleon Sarony (American (born Canada), Quebec 1821–1896 New York) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC0 1. 0 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has added 375,000 images to the public domain, each showing a scan of copyright-free artwork in the museum's collection. dpreview.com »
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Selfies have become a ubiquitous part of daily life in most major cities. But there is one European city where it may not be so commonplace: Berlin. [Read More]
Scientists studied 1,001 selfies to learn how people use them to communicate and concluded that these photos can be classified into five distinct categories: "aesthetics," "imagination," "trait," "state," and "theory of mind." [Read More]
A picturesque Austrian town that is believed to have inspired Disney's Frozen has erected a fence in a bid to stop tourists from taking selfies. [Read More]
An actor has broken the Guinness World Record for most selfies taken in three minutes, snapping 184 photos in total.
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A 22-year-old Indonesian college student has become a millionaire overnight after turning his collection of daily selfies into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a joke. [Read More]
I started with a camera in my hands in 2004 and realized the magic of creating characters and personas with it. Here are some of my favorite self-portraits throughout the years. Some have terrible edits, some are just completely strange, but these are the moments in my life that I'll forever remember because of these photos.
Sick of snapping selfies in which you or someone else has closed eyes or an unflattering facial expression? Google wants to use the power of AI to help you avoid that. In an announcement on the Google AI Blog, Google has announced a new shutter-free mode in the Pixel 3 Camera app called Photobooth. Once […]