World's First Photo Selfie

self-portrait selfie or being trendy as the popularity of smartphones. Sure it has since the first photos of the selfie exist. In fact, according to historical research, the world's first selfie photos do more than a century ago.

According to research quoted by the Huffington Post, Thursday (03/04/2014), selfie first performed in October 1893 by a man named Robert Cornelius. Robert is a man from the United States included the figure of the pioneers in the field of photography.

One time, he intends to take a photo of yourself with the early photographic technique called daguerreotype. This technique was created Louis Daguerre, a French man.

Be Robert snapped photos herself which is touted as the world's first selfie. Due to the complexity of the process still photography at that time, Cornelius necessary within 3 to 15 minutes in a stationary position so that the camera captures the image properly.

Of course style selfie ordinary Cornelius, tends to be formal. Unlike selfie trend today with a variety of styles. Cornelius himself then pretty serious about photography, and even had time to open a photo studio.

In addition to Cornelius photos, there are more photos selfie past which is also considered one of the oldest. Namely the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of photos in 1914, where he snapped himself in the mirror