Seeing our own reflection in the birth of the self-portrait

This lovely page grabbed my attention and held it until I scrolled the last text box to the top. The shifting focus across the displayed works was particularly effective, evoking a visit to a museum with a well-informed guide.

I was reminded of pre-internet days, when it was hard for a small-town child to see art, so any available art book or magazine got trance-like attention. This webpage was a sort of time machine for me.

In this and similar pages that marry method and message, the nytimes has demonstrated how to breath life into the web.

Fantastic website. Great use of modern web design.

To me, the smartphone revolution with high quality "selfies" is the latest iteration of the self portrait revolution. The relentless and unapologetic posting of one's own picture on social media without pretending to convey any other message that one's own vanity is still fascinating to me, even though I take part in it.

It is the ongoing rise of individualism, ignoring or denying the possible individual contribution and dependency to the group. To show only myself, in an one-way relationship through likes and follows, from one individual to potentially all other humans on earth. Crazy.

this was really good! I'm not even into paintings. Bravo to nyt for how they continue to innovate on using this format.

500 years ago, people were still wonder ‘What are we?’

How little time we have on earth to contemplate.

Haunting