Robert Cornelius
The inventor of the selfie

Robert Cornelius was a U.S. Photographer born in 1809. Cornelius contributed to the Early Photography movement and died in 1893.

Self-portrait

1839

View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia

1840

Hippolyte Bayard

The second person to invent photography

1801-1887

William Henry Fox Talbot

Britain's photographic pioneer

1800-1877

Anna Atkins

Electric blue: the first photographic book

1799-1871

18011900

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Robert Cornelius The inventor of the selfie

Self-portrait

View of intersection of Eighth Street and Market Street, Philadelphia

Hippolyte Bayard

William Henry Fox Talbot

Anna Atkins

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Robert Cornelius
The inventor of the selfie