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The selfie from Akhenaten to Tracey Emin

A review of James Hall’s The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History. This wonderful survey has brilliant timing – but not nearly enough illustrations

Marcia painting her self-portrait’; detail from Boccaccio’s On Famous Women (1402) [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History

    James Hall

    Thames and Hudson, pp. 288

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