Historical Selfies

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Selfies are pretty terrible and associated with massive amounts of ego. Take the hubris and arrogance exemplified by Selfies at Funerals and Rich Kids of Instagram and apply them to a historical or literary figure on the eve of an impending disaster.

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For this assignment, titled Historical Selfies, I wanted to create a reverse of something that politicians do all the time.  They think that by placing themselves

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Howard Carter selfie Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, Nov. 2008

This is a fictional story of how I photobombed Howard Carter’s selfie in

These were all focused on historical “selfies” right before disasters but you could do the opposite. I was inspired by the horrible and fascinating

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