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Selfie -a picture taken of a person by that person.While people have been taking pictures of themselves for quite some time, most experts agree that the selfie first evolved into its modern version when people started taking pictures of themselves to post on MySpace between 2003 and 2005. However, it was a drunk Australian on Flickr in 2004 who coined the term “selfie” to describe the act of taking a picture of yourself and posting it to social media.The first-ever ' selfie ' was taken in 1839 . While not termed as such then, the self-portrait was taken by Robert Cornelius , an amateur chemist and photography enthusiast, in Philadelphia.Then as the years passed, and cell phone technology, as well as the independent technologies of the various social media outlets improved, selfies themselves began to improve. And as they improved, they increased in popularity. In 2013, the selfie would then hit the mainstream when the Oxford Dictionary added the term “ selfie .”The first t...

The people's President

The Barack Obama "Hope" poster.It is an image of Barack Obama designed by artist Shepard Fairey which was widely described as iconic and came to represent the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.It consists of a stylized stencil portrait of Obama in solid red, beige and (light and dark) blue, with the word "progress", "hope" or "change" below (and other words in some versions).The design was created in one day and printed first as a poster.The original source photograph Fairey based the poster on was not publicly known until after Obama had won the election. After a mistaken attribution to Reuters photographer Jim Young for a similar-looking January 2007 photograph, in January 2009 photographer and blogger Tom Garlish discovered that the poster was based on an Associated Press photograph by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia. It was taken at a 2006 media event with Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, where the actor George Clooney was raising awareness of the War in Darfur after a trip to sudan he had taken with his father.

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