The culture of the self-portrait in its historical development

The introspection of the self in the self-por-trait includes a variety of meanings and typo-logies in the universe of arts, a game that has been taking place in painting for centuries. The portrait had a revulsion with the emer-gence of photography, but the self-portrait with the arrival of the Digital Era has increa-sed exponentially, adapting the English term selfie. An analysis in which this genre is in-vestigated, which since the classical era with the myth of Narcissus lays the foundations of a certain ego and vanity linked to self-por-trait. Whether in painting or photography, a certain spiritual union is offered in this genre as a mask that sometimes reveals the emo-tional, transcends immortality, and obtains even greater force with new technologies, gi-ving priority to the mobile along with its ad-vances in the camera digital with which to be able to stop time and self-reflect as if it were a mirror, in such widespread use by means of the new supports that make us dominate the composition.