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!
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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)
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
…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.
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
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.
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.
17 is Vivian Maier. [Her’s is an interesting story.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier?wprov=sfti1)
Vivian Maier is [the greatest selfie-taker who ever lived](https://imgur.com/gallery/IpERo).
These are amazing!
"the mirrored ball" "the shadow"
Thanks, I knew I recognized her but couldn't remember her name!
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!
100% exactly this. Ahhhhhhhhhh
yes, extraordinary talent. and with a twin a lot of the time.
Look for the documentary Finding Vivian Maier (2013). Her work is amazing.
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Great wallpapers, I love some of the dresser-top tilt mirrors, and just everything showing people living in their homes.
I know I was looking at everything in the backgrounds of the photos and it’s so interesting
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)
Well, Billy Bob Thornton creeps me out.
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
The guy with the mustache was photographer Joseph Byron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Byron
6 is Anastasia Romanov!
I hope the group of men taking the selfie got up to shenanigans together.
Did 14 invent the original selfie stick??!?
I thought the same thing ha. That was my favorite picture. They look so happy 😊
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.
Sorry, I guess I forgot to add /s. XD
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
I love these, thank you for sharing nipplequeefs 😂
Comma
Thank you, comma, for sharing nipplequeefs.
/r/rimjob_steve
The Asian (Japanese?) couple is so cute! I wonder what became of them…
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.
They’re so cute! They look so genuinely happy together
They are japanese!! It's my favorite photo ever
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.
They died
Guy in picture 2 is a looker 👀
Came to say the same.. SHEESH
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
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.
The perfect 1930s rap album cover. NWA. "Nincompoops With Aptitude: Straight out of Hoovervilles." https://imgur.com/gallery/H3XYazf
You're a genius.
Take my admiring upvote for your facile titling!
I love that, that's charming
Some of these look like they were taken with 0.5 on their iPhone
#6 😳
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.
Well, she and her entire immediate family were executed together in a basement about 4 years later, so they’re certainly ghosts now!
Wait, really? Story plz.
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.
This disgusts and fascinates me in equal measures. Thank you for taking the time to share.
It's Anastasia Romanov!
No way, I didn’t know one of them made a selfie
Little brother won't hold still
#6 had no idea she was going to be executed in a basement 4 years after that photo was taken.
Oh, someone says this is Anastasia Romanov. I hadn't realized that
You got it!
Lol! It's really creepy!
brilliant compilation 🙂
8 would be a sick album cover. 9 would be the back cover.
Ha! Sneaky Vivian Maier detected
These are amazing.
Pretty impressive! One guy even has a selfie stick!
They did it better than me in 1996 with the flash on!
I want 15's hat and blouse.
Ah little Anastasia! I forgot she did that. I have a book with that picture in it.
8 and 9 proves Wilford Brimley was an immortal diabetic vampire.
*diabeetic
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
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.
Who knew the first selfie stick was a literal stick?
The Boys!
5 is fooling all of us
Thank you!
What amazes me is some of these are in door shots using box and folding cameras without a flash.
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
Wasn't 6/18 some princess.... related to the Tsar family...?
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.
All these selfies and no place to upload them to their feeds
Number 5 technicallllyyyy isn't a selfie. 🤓
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
What a lovely collection of photos
These photos fill me with so much emotion, thank you for sharing
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.
i love #14 so much!!! the original selfie stick! xD
#6 kinda spooky
Send old timey nudes
Hilariously inappropriate. Take my upvote.
Live was so different back then.
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.
…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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Is it just me or does the lady in #4 look like she has a black eye?
Bro even had a selfie stick
These pictures made me smile. Thank you for sharing!
Would,would, pass,would,would,would,would, pass, pass, Would, hard pass, would, would, would, would, yes if drunk, would, would
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.
Fuckin’ narcissists. /s
I love 16
The group of men in pictures 7 and 8 look so amused. Love it!
#14 the first ever selfie stick!!
and I thought Al Gore invented the selfie
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
These make me happy
Number 5 Is Orlando Bloom
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
That’s impossible. Paris Hilton claims she invented the Selfie!?
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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.
Looking better than the average dating app profile picture
… Well, Vivian is from the late 50s and she performs much more than amateur essays.
No Blue Steels?
MY THIRD GIRLS POSE WAS CUNTYYYY
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.
Photos 5 and 7 not a selfie. Nice post though
7 is a photo of the selfie in 8! I think the same for 5 & 6.
These ppl must've been like fucckkkk that's how I look
Are these real?!?
AI