One Sunday morning, Mahatma Gandhi attended a Christian church somewhere in the Bible belt America. Perhaps you have seen pictures of M.G. (like the one above) skinny, baldy, sporting an antique-looking eye glass, austerely and simply clad with white apparel, typical attire of an Indian guru. Apparently his disgusting appearance turned off many members of the said church. Gandhi naturally saw the sneered looks on their faces. He felt the strong vibrations of dislike and prejudice and disc...| Etcetera & Atbp
Selfies are by no means an exclusively modern phenomenon. As shown in a previous post on medieval selfies, some decorators made self-portraits in manuscripts, showing that the practice predates print – albeit without the use of a camera. They did so to identify themselves as the creator of a miniature or historiated initial, or even … Continue reading Me, Myself, and I: The Story of Two Medieval Selfies→| medievalbooks