Photographers would look to the examples provided by the history of painting in the way they composed their images. Since self-portraiture has a long history in art, it’s no surprise that self-portrait photographs share some similarities with painting. Although a photograph can be made much quicker than an oil painting, the early photographic processes required people to sit still for several minutes. Various contraptions were invented to stabilise the head so that it didn’t appear blurry in the final picture.
