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Selfie: The Changing Face of Self Portraits

Selfie: The Changing Face of Self Portraits


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About the Book

'Selfies' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team's selfie in 2014, you can't open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the selfie stick, and camera phones, have helped make the selfie a global trend, so you would be forgiven for thinking that this is a modern trend. But in fact, the first known selfies date from about 40,000 years ago and are hand stencils, discovered on a cave wall in Indonesia.

Produced in conjunction with the Art Archive, Selfie charts the progress and the development of the self portrait, from Indonesian caves, through famous self-portrait artists such as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso and the invention of the camera, to iconic modern selfies such as the 2014 Oscar photograph.

It looks at trends, techniques and the tales behind some famous self portraits - do you know why Van Gogh was driven to cut off a chunk of his ear? Or how Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera's stormy marriage affected their painting? Which teenage member of the Russian royal family sent a selfie she had taken in a mirror to a friend in 1914? And how are Andy Warhol's photographic techniques still influencing selfie-takers today? Selfie has the answers to all these questions, and many more!

Packed full of fascinating information and incredible images, this is a must-have book for selfie-lovers of all ages!

Table of Contents:
  • 1: All by your selfie
  • 2: Selfies of old
  • 3: Jan van Eyck
  • 4: Albrecht Durer
  • 5: Selfies in disguise
  • 6: Leonardo
  • 7: The artist at work
  • 8: Rembrandt van Rijn
  • 9: Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
  • 10: Pulling faces
  • 11: Gustave Courbet
  • 12: The first photos
  • 13: Vincent van Gogh
  • 14: James Ensor
  • 15: Express yourself
  • 16: Pablo Picasso
  • 17: Mirror magic
  • 18: Kahlo and Rivera
  • 19: Francis Bacon
  • 20: Andy Warhol
  • 21: Selfies today
  • 22: Glossary


About the Author :
Susie Brooks is an award-winning writer and editor of children's books. Writing on a wide range of subjects from dinosaurs to geography, she also masquerades as an artist (among other things, painting children's portraits and getting messy in classroom workshops!). In 2014, her Get into Art series won the English Association Picture Book Award, British Book Design and Production Award and the overall SLA Information Book Award. She can regularly be found walking people's dogs and in her spare time, loves to travel and explore new places!

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Produced in conjunction with the Art Archive, this book charts the history of the self portrait, from Indonesian caves, through famous self-portrait artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso through the invention of the camera, and on to iconic morn selfies such as the 2014 Oscar photograph


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780750299640
  • Publisher: Hachette Children'S Group
  • Publisher Imprint: Wayland
  • Height: 181 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 214 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0750299649
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jun 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 135 mm


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