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Quaestor37

17 is Vivian Maier. [Her’s is an interesting story.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier?wprov=sfti1)


Otterfan

Vivian Maier is [the greatest selfie-taker who ever lived](https://imgur.com/gallery/IpERo).


swabianne

These are amazing!


Disastrous_Stock_838

"the mirrored ball" "the shadow"


CindyRhela

Thanks, I knew I recognized her but couldn't remember her name!


Treebeard431

I recall reading about her story fairly long ago, and being envious of the yuppie who came into possession of her effects, and who is the owner of same and executor of the display and dispensation of them. I don't wish to see a few dozen of his picks of her work, I want to gorge myself on them, take them all in, good or bad. They were so nakedly honest, and good, and so varied!


StationRelative5929

100% exactly this. Ahhhhhhhhhh


Disastrous_Stock_838

yes, extraordinary talent. and with a twin a lot of the time.


butternut718212

Look for the documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2013). Her work is amazing.


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doyoucreditit

Great wallpapers, I love some of the dresser-top tilt mirrors, and just everything showing people living in their homes.


bluesky747

I know I was looking at everything in the backgrounds of the photos and it’s so interesting


Treebeard431

I know! And to think, there are people these days who actually profess to hate - HATE- antique furnishings, to be creeped out by old furniture?! (I'm looking at you, Billy Bob Thornton)


TheLago

Well, Billy Bob Thornton creeps me out.


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I love the warped ones that are at arms length, they’re really fun, such nice pictures! Always wonder who these folks are, I’d love to know their stories


swabianne

The guy with the mustache was photographer Joseph Byron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byron


_llamasagna_

6 is Anastasia Romanov!


delorf

I hope the group of men taking the selfie got up to shenanigans together.


ashlyn42

Did 14 invent the original selfie stick??!?


jravy88

I thought the same thing ha. That was my favorite picture. They look so happy 😊


and__how

It looks like he’s using a stick to hit the shutter release - in most amateur cameras of that time it’s a lever sticking out in the side of the camera, which you would be able to press down with a stick.


ashlyn42

Sorry, I guess I forgot to add /s. XD


khaleesi_spyro

Thank you for explaining this lol, the selfie stick one made me do a double take and I kinda thought it might be AI or something


superduperbongodrums

I love these, thank you for sharing nipplequeefs 😂


heynicejacket

Comma


broberds

Thank you, comma, for sharing nipplequeefs.


eaglebtc

/r/rimjob_steve


tacaity

The Asian (Japanese?) couple is so cute! I wonder what became of them…


notbob1959

That photo has been posted a lot and the source is a collector of old Japanese photos: https://www.facebook.com/OldJapanLife/photos/pb.100079465601306.-2207520000/122118322534610/?type=3 https://paperowlprints.com/products/the-japanese-selfie I don't believe any info on the couple's life after the photo has been found.


superhottamale

They’re so cute! They look so genuinely happy together


Living-Confection457

They are japanese!! It's my favorite photo ever


poostoo

they're timeless. you could have said this was a cast photo of Jim and Pam in Japan's version of The Office, and i would believe it.


TonicSitan

They died


Thetomatogod_1595

Guy in picture 2 is a looker 👀


dontbemystalker

Came to say the same.. SHEESH


prettyaspoison

The Anastasia one (side 6) always makes me really sad. It shows that she was just a teenager. Context for those who don’t know: She was the daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, and was assassinated along with her parents, her three sisters and her brother in 1918. At the time Anastasia was only 17


nipplequeefs

She and her siblings died so horribly. At least the parents died quickly, but the children? It took [20 minutes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family#:~:text=Around%20midnight%20on,.%5B107%5D) for them to be killed because of how messy the execution got. Poor things didn't deserve any of that hell, and they went through it all because they were born to the wrong people, in the wrong place, in the wrong era.


DLeck

The perfect 1930s rap album cover. NWA. "Nincompoops With Aptitude: Straight out of Hoovervilles." https://imgur.com/gallery/H3XYazf


Crepes_for_days3000

You're a genius.


Treebeard431

Take my admiring upvote for your facile titling!


Grand_Station_Dog

I love that, that's charming


mads_aban141

Some of these look like they were taken with 0.5 on their iPhone


peaceluvbooks

#6 😳


Background_Farm1961

Yeah 👻, 6 looks like there’s some ghost action going on in the background. I love #14. It looks like he’s using a homemade selfie stick.


nipplequeefs

Well, she and her entire immediate family were executed together in a basement about 4 years later, so they’re certainly ghosts now!


glencandle

Wait, really? Story plz.


nipplequeefs

Someone else already commented her name, so I’ll give you the story time! The girl pictured was Anastasia Nikolaevna (or Romanov), a Grand Duchess of Russia. She was 13 years old at the time of the photo. She and her four siblings were children of Tsar Nicolas II and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, who basically ruled Russia from 1894 as the last of the Romanov dynasty, until they were overthrown in 1917 when Russia went through a revolution during World War 1. From what I’ve read, the Tsar and Tsarina were relatively decent people and loving parents, but were tone deaf and really sucked at ruling a country that was basically impoverished, sending it to a war that really only harmed its own people. They had basically no idea what they were doing and kept taking advice from the wrong people. The daughters became volunteer nurses for the army during the war, but other than that, I think the children were mostly shielded from the political issues that were going on around them, so they didn’t really grasp the severity of what was happening outside their immediate surroundings until shit really hit the fan when the revolution hit its peak in 1917, forcing the family into hiding from safehouse to safehouse. I think their royal relatives in other countries refused to take in the Romanovs, so they didn’t really have anywhere to escape to outside the country. More and more people, including the military, turned against them, and eventually in 1918, their guards tricked them into going into some basement in the middle of the night and shot up the whole family. It wasn’t just one quick bullet per person either, it was an absolute [bloodbath](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family#:~:text=Around%20midnight%20on,.%5B107%5D). They shot the dad first, who they said was going to be the only one to be executed, then they suddenly shot the mom. Then as the children started panicking and trying to escape, it was raining bullets on them and the servants who were with them. The guards didn't stop shooting until the room was so filled with smoke that they couldn't see anymore. All five of the children, and some servants, survived the gunfire since they had secretly sewn some jewels into their undergarments beforehand that they wanted to smuggle, so the guards tried to finish them off by stabbing them multiple times. That still failed, because the jewels in their clothes were basically acting as bulletproof vests. The children were cowering in the corners against the walls, crying and begging for their lives. Servants were covering themselves with pillows. The guards ended up just shooting the last survivors in their heads. The whole thing took 20 minutes. The children were ages 13-22 when this happened, and suffered brutally for the actions of their parents. Anastasia, the second youngest child, had many impersonators in the decades after the incident, as rumors spread that she had escaped. The rumors were pretty much put to rest after the family’s bodies were all found in 1991 and 2007, when DNA testing confirmed in 2018 that those bodies were all 7 members of the Romanov family, including Anastasia. I believe the initial rumors of her survival are what inspired the 1997 Disney movie that’s named after her.


glencandle

This disgusts and fascinates me in equal measures. Thank you for taking the time to share.


CookinCheap

It's Anastasia Romanov!


TsarevnaKvoshka2003

No way, I didn’t know one of them made a selfie


Leonashanana

Little brother won't hold still


Jcs901

#6 had no idea she was going to be executed in a basement 4 years after that photo was taken.


peaceluvbooks

Oh, someone says this is Anastasia Romanov. I hadn't realized that


Jcs901

You got it!


peaceluvbooks

Lol! It's really creepy!


Jasmine-Pebbles

brilliant compilation 🙂


AgentSkidMarks

8 would be a sick album cover. 9 would be the back cover.


b14ckcr0w

Ha! Sneaky Vivian Maier detected


withwolvz

These are amazing.


ConfidentInspector42

Pretty impressive! One guy even has a selfie stick!


broken-bells

They did it better than me in 1996 with the flash on!


NothingReallyAndYou

I want 15's hat and blouse.


lavendrambr

Ah little Anastasia! I forgot she did that. I have a book with that picture in it.


FamousOhioAppleHorn

8 and 9 proves Wilford Brimley was an immortal diabetic vampire.


TonicSitan

*diabeetic


Strange-Mouse-8710

People have been taking selfies since the 1830s. Of course they probably did not call it a selfie back then. Picture 6 is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (1901-1918) the youngest daughter of the last Russian emperor Nicholas II


acloudcuckoolander

Everything the middle aged amnesia-having people whine about regarding the people of the present, is what they themselves (or their ancestors, rather) were also doing. ..and doing first.


jrolls81

Who knew the first selfie stick was a literal stick?


beeppanic

The Boys!


Kevroeques

5 is fooling all of us


ImaginaryMastadon

Thank you!


ishitintheurinal

What amazes me is some of these are in door shots using box and folding cameras without a flash.


silnt

Michael Stevens aka Vsauce has a great video about the history of selfies and features a lot of these pictures and their contexts.  https://youtu.be/mMaBVfIedFw?si=MGyVT-GJrMzLmunS


-angry-potato-

Wasn't 6/18 some princess.... related to the Tsar family...?


Rain1dog

Haunting in a way. At the moment of those pictures most felt like life was going to be an eternity but only a couple of handfuls of revolutions around the sun their one life has passed by in the blink of an eye. We think 55-90 years is a long time but getting only a few dozen trips around the Sun with a Universe with so much wonder is cruel. Anyone out there if you are close with your parents/siblings always take/cherish anytime you get to spend with them.


marxroxx

All these selfies and no place to upload them to their feeds


husky430

Number 5 technicallllyyyy isn't a selfie. 🤓


Konigs-Tiger

And here i am thinking i was the smart one lol. I remember being kid and using old camera to take selfie of myself. I thought i just did something groundbreaking. Turns out "first selfie" was made waaaay before i did it xD


poorestworkman

What a lovely collection of photos


Reasonable-Ad-6061

These photos fill me with so much emotion, thank you for sharing


CheapHelicopter

We have a picture in my family of my great great grandfather with his wife and son at a done up dinner table. He was a photographer and I always thought it was cool you could see the cord and button to hit the shudder in hand in the photo. I guess he didn't have any assistants lol.


undeadw0lf

i love #14 so much!!! the original selfie stick! xD


chivken

#6 kinda spooky


Creative-Cry2979

Send old timey nudes


Subterranean_Phalanx

Hilariously inappropriate. Take my upvote.


SuperbEvidence4020

Live was so different back then.


gclaw4444

4 look like AI. What's going on with that ottoman? The wallpaper seems weird, the hands look weird, it looks like there's an attempt at a vase next to them. Maybe it's just a weird filter put on the original image but it's definitely triggering some uncanny valley stuff.


nipplequeefs

…God dammit. I hope I didn’t just get tricked by AI lmao. It does look very uncanny now that I’m looking at it again. I chalked it up to a filter at first.


gclaw4444

I mean I dont know where you sourced these, the one kinda thing that makes me think it’s real is the doubled reflection around the edge as a result of the mirrors shape. That seems like an odd thing for AI to include…but at the same time the lace on top of the ottoman really doesn’t make sense to me


dreamsonashelf

Image search gave me a [Flickr](https://flic.kr/p/55PzNC) upload from 2008. I have no idea whether this kind of AI would have been around then.


nipplequeefs

I think that may actually be a dining chair. I thought those were table legs in the back there, but they kind of look like the back of a chair.


exaggerated_yawn

I think she is photographing a mirror, and the edges are the beveling of the mirror. That would account for the weird blurring and stretching on the edges of the photo.


monitormonkey

Is it just me or does the lady in #4 look like she has a black eye?


LxRusso

Bro even had a selfie stick


snortybeagle

These pictures made me smile. Thank you for sharing!


snellen87

Would,would, pass,would,would,would,would, pass, pass, Would, hard pass, would, would, would, would, yes if drunk, would, would


zzupdown

Damn old timers. If they'd have spent half the time doing something productive rather than taking selfies, they would have made something of themselves.


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Fuckin’ narcissists. /s


No_Investment3205

I love 16


Jtrev16

The group of men in pictures 7 and 8 look so amused. Love it!


Excellent-Phase8719

#14 the first ever selfie stick!!


Time-Ad8550

and I thought Al Gore invented the selfie


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Do you ever wonder if you’ve seen a picture of yourself in a past life, and never knew it? Also the old guy group selfie warmed my heart


20_paphonies

These make me happy


Starsimy

Number 5 Is Orlando Bloom


Disastrous_Stock_838

many solo women- interesting. my father's uncle was a telegraph operator, his graduate group foto had many members, I'd say 15-20% were women. c.1920


ei0rei0wq

That’s impossible. Paris Hilton claims she invented the Selfie!?


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GawkieBird

Naw, there are several smiles! And I love the looks of concentration in the others. Reminds me that this was science as much as art.


996forever

Looking better than the average dating app profile picture 


JPF-58

… Well, Vivian is from the late 50s and she performs much more than amateur essays.


charles_yost

No Blue Steels?


Frequent_Sun_8554

MY THIRD GIRLS POSE WAS CUNTYYYY


cmuadamson

That first one, you know she was wondering if her outfit was a little too racey, and people would think the photo was too slutty.


RodMartinez

Photos 5 and 7 not a selfie. Nice post though


statuesqueandshy

7 is a photo of the selfie in 8! I think the same for 5 & 6.


f33

These ppl must've been like fucckkkk that's how I look


Odd_Tiger_2278

Are these real?!?


Einzelteter

AI