Parmigianino painted a self portrait in a convex mirror. He used oil paints to paint on the hollow inside of half a wooden ball to mimic the shape of the mirror he copied his reflection from. This man used a convex mirror to see himself and today we use digital technology.
We snap selfies on our phones and post them to a bunch of social media platforms. We write about our lives in blogs and status updates on Facebook. With digital cameras, smart phones, and social media, it’s easier to create and share our self representations. Self representations have always been apart of our culture and over time have become easier to create. People have drawn, carved, sculpted, and painted images of ourselves for milllenia. People have kept diaries, scrapbooks, and photo albums. Also people have sung ballads and told stories about themselves.
Augustine and Montaige wrote the first autobiographies and the first personal essays. We also write about our thoughts and our experiences. Like Benjamin Franklin and the farmer keeping a weather diary, we track our habits, locations, to do lists and other data about our lives.
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