Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter.

This book demonstrates how artists have radically revisited the genre of the self-portrait by using a range of technologies and media that mark different phases in what can be described as a history of self- or selves-production.

Introduction

1. The Invention of the Self-Portrait

2. The Photographic Self-Portrait

3. Sculpting the Self

4. Video Self-Portraits

5. The Selfie

Conclusion