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The Original Selfie Craze Was the Mirror

01 December 2020

“With all this sex and primping, mirrors were associated from early on with vanity and self-obsession, particularly in women. During the medieval period in Europe, paintings of vice would include women gazing into hand mirrors while the skeletons of demons lurked behind them.”

This is a really fascinating history of mirrors and how they changed the way people acted and in turn became the first selfies.

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