Self Portraiture in Art

SELF PORTRAITURE IN PAINTINGS: 

Gustave Courbet, Self Portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843.

Édouard Vuillard, Self Portrait, 1889

PHOTOGRAPHIC SELF PORTRAITURE: 

There are three main ways to create self portraits in photgraphy. One is to photograph a reflection in a mirror  another is to photraph ones self with the camera in their oustretched hand, and the third is to set the camera up on a tripod or surface and use either a timed shutter release or a remote controlled shutter release. It is also possible to have another person press the shutter after everything has been set up. 

Robert Cornelius, 1839 

First photographic self portrait ever made. 

Eadweard Muybridge- Self-portrait as man throwing, climbing and walking, circa 1893