The vanity and eerie beauty of early photography

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From striking abstracts to proto-selfies, what people would do with cameras was apparent from the very earliest days

IN 16th-century Europe, advances in glassmaking made small, mass-produced mirrors widely available for the first time. Suddenly, it was no longer the preserve of a privileged minority to see one’s own clear reflection. Artists, poets and playwrights, ever attentive to such fads, were quick to pounce on the trend, incorporating reflections and doubles into their work. For some, mirrors even seemed to intimate a new kind of awareness: an altogether different way of seeing the self.

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https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/08/daguerrogram-0

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