The earliest known example comes from 1839, the same year that Louis Daguerre patented the ‘invention’ of photography as a commercially viable process. Since then, the self-portrait, a genre inherited from painting, has become a staple form of photographic image making. The Selfie accounts for a large proportion of the digital photographs people make. According to a recent survey, 24 billion selfies were uploaded to the Internet in the year 2016.
