"Between you and me, I’m not deep, but I am very wide, and it takes time to walk around me."
― Honoré de Balzac (letter to Countess Maffei, 1837)
#Daguerréotype Balzac (1842), atelier Bisson, Paris.
('Daguerréotype is the first publicly available photographic process, the 1830s to 1850s.)

Robert Cornelius (1809-1893), a Lighting and Fixture Industrialist, was the first person to take a selfie. A daguerréotype of himself in 1839. Cornelius sat for 15 minutes in front of a hand-built camera made of opera glass and sheets of copper.
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