If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly ...

Carvings depicting distorted spirits' faces dreamed up by shamans in Alaska What it tells us about the past: Around 800 years ago, a 7-year-old boy named Onfim seems to have gotten bored with doing ...

fashion and other daily ephemera that contributes to the identity of a society at a particular point in time. In essence, pop culture is a self-portrait created through purchasing power.