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By Cecil Beaton(1904-1980) from England.
Date: 1927, Bromide Print.

Hundreds of portraits of Cecil Beaton existed today due to his long, prominent career. It is also important to note that many of Beaton's self-portraits come from his youth because he was given his first camera at the age of eleven. Though this print is from Beaton's young adulthood, it shows the early experimentation he embarked on.

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By Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)from England.
Date: 1930s, Gelatin Silver Print.

This photograph is printed from two negatives (one of a self-portrait of Beaton and another of a skull) serving as a reminder of inevitable death or "memento mori".

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By Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)from England.
Date: 1930s, Gelatin Silver Print.

Cecil Beaton photographed many genres including fashion, portraits, and war, but he also was an award winning stage and costume designer. In this photo of himself, he is surrounded by his elaborately designed studio.

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By Gordon Parks (1912-2006) from Kansas, U.S.
Date: 1941, Gelatin Silver Print Process.

Parks' self-portrait was taken the same year the United States entered World War II. Parks photographed several self-portraits during this time. He found power in the camera to combat poverty and social injustice.

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By Gordon Parks (1912-2006) from Kansas, U.S.
Date: 1941, Gelatin Silver Print Process.

This self-portrait is another example from the series made during the second world war. Parks was active in Chicago, Illinois at South Side Community Art Center studios.

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By Gordon Parks (1912-2006) from Kansas, U.S.
Date: 1948, Gelatin Silver Print Process.

Gordon Parks photographed with his camera and a grin is symbolic for his work documenting and fighting alongside the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. This self-portrait is taken just before the decade the movement took place in and shows the importance of photographers who are also activists.

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By Andy Warhol (1928-1987)from Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date:1963, Acrylic and Silkscreen ink on canvas.

This is one of Warhol's first self-portraits created from a photo booth image of him and reprinted. This image takes part in Warhol's revolutionary height in the Pop Art Movement to create and then elevate everyday scenes and objects into high art.

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By Lee Friedlander (1934-) from Washington, U.S.
Date: 1966, Gelatin Silver Print.

From Friedlander's series, In the Picture: Self-Portraits 1958-2011.

Lee Friedlander has many photographs in his series where he has inserted himself into the photo, making it a self-portrait. Friedlander did this by showing his shadow or reflections in glass or mirrors as seen below. His reflection complicates the framed photo of the Black woman by confusing who the viewer sees as visible in the recontextulized frame.

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By Lee Friedlander (1934-) from Washington, U.S.
Date: 1968, Gelatin Silver Print.

From Friedlander's series, In the Picture: Self-Portraits 1958-2011.

Lee Friedlander obstructs the view of himself in his self-portrait by placing a lit lightbulb between him and the camera. The obstruction puts Friedlander as the secondary subject in this image.

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By Lee Friedlander (1934-) from Washington, U.S.

Date: 1968, Gelatin Silver Print.

From Friedlander's photobook, "SIGNS".

Friedlander documented the rapidly changing post-war America through the American landscape and cities. In his series of pictures containing signs, he inserts himself slyly to comment on the changes happening within himself too. His series of signs and self-portraits alike showcase a life long project of documenting changing life around him.

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By Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)from NY, U.S.
Date: 1973, Polaroid.

Robert Mapplethorpe was notorious for photographing sexual imagery of himself and documenting the gay male BDSM subculture that existed in NYC during the 1960s-1970s. Mapplethorpe's self-portraits are an inward reflection of himself, commenting on beauty in all things.

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By Samuel Fosso(1962-) from Cameroon.
Date: 1976, Gelatin Silver Print.
From his photobook entitled, AutoPortraits.

Samuel Fosso is from Kumba, Cameroon in Central and West Africa.  This series of images from 1976 are one part of a photobook that has released in 2020 entitled AutoPortraits.

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By Samuel Fosso (1962-) from Cameroon.
Date: 1976, Gelatin Silver Print.
From his photobook entitled, AutoPortraits.

AutoPortraits contains pictures from Fosso's youth at his studio in Cameroon. These images from the 1970s were controversial because the clothing he wore was not acceptable in this non-Western country's society. Fosso departs from the West African traditional studio photography.

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By Samuel Fosso(1962-) from Cameroon.
Date: 1976, Gelatin Silver Print.
From his photobook entitled, AutoPortraits.

AutoPortraits is more than a collection of self-portraits from Fosso's youth in which he poses as different African and African American historical figures from the 20th century. These images toy with ideas of race, gender, sexuality, and self-representation.

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By Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)from NY, U.S.
Date: 1980, Gelatin Silver Print.

This self-portrait is one of a series within the 80s in which Mapplethorpe vastly juxtaposes each photo of himself to blur the lines between the strict socially constructed terms of gender identity. This photo of him in partial drag, compared to other photos in which he is adorned with a leather jacket or devil horns contrasts one another.

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By Andy Warhol (1928-1987)from Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date: 1981, Dye Diffusion Transfer Print(Polaroid).

This photo was a part of a Polaroid self-portrait series Warhol created with Christopher Makos. Warhol was interested in drag and experimenting with his own self-image.

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By Andy Warhol (1928-1987)from Pennsylvania, U.S.
Date: 1981, Color Polaroid photograph.

In 1981, Warhol created a series of prints called "Myths" in which models took on the role of specific characters. Warhol took a moment to photograph himself (aside from who his character was) in high contrasting shadow.

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By Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)from NY, U.S.
Date: 1985, Gelatin Silver Print process on paper.

Mapplethorpe's self-portrait comments on the transience of life and experiments with motion.

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By Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989)from NY, U.S.
Date: 1988, Gelatin Silver Print on Paper.

In 1986, Mapplethorpe was diagnosed with AIDS. Mapplethorpe did not stop his artistic work, but instead expanded his range. The contrast of this photograph encapsulates a direct confrontation of death in Mapplethorpe's life. He continued to believe he could beat AIDS until his death in 1989.