08/30/2024

Vintage Photography: The 1920s Selfie

Giving the sepia filter a whole new meaning. A mustached man in the early 1900s might be responsible for taking the first-ever selfie in photographic history.

Photographer Joseph Byron took a snap of himself in a suit and top hat way back in 1909, before also enlisting the help of his colleagues Ben Falk, Pirie MacDonald, Colonel Marceau, and Pop Core to snap a group selfie in December 1920.

From US Weekly, here.


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