Selfie

A selfie is a self-portrait photograph. It is typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone.

Two subjects posing for a joint selfie

One of the first self-portraits was taken in 1839 by Robert Cornelius, an American photographer.^[1] The term "selfie" was first used by photographer Jim Krause in 2005.^[2]

Selfies by animals

"Monkey selfie" of a black crested macaque who had picked up a camera^[3][4]

A black crested macaque (Macaca nigra) stole a camera, and took a photo of herself. The selfie seemed to set a legal precedent when the Wikimedia Foundation rejected a copyright claim. The ground was that a non-human could not own a copyright, and the camera owner had not taken the photo, and so also could not own the copyright. And so, the photo was not under copyright.^[5][6]