Stereo bronze medal Photography - Club 1921 Emile Monier

This medal, as seen in the back, was coined in 1921 in France, on the occasion of an open competition of the Stereo-Club . And he was commissioned to design Émile Adolphe Monier (1883-1970), an emblematic French sculptor of the Art Deco period . During his career he created very beautiful portraits of the different ethnic groups in the former French colonial empire. And due to his authorship important bronze medals minted representative profiles of men and women as Bornour, Peuhl, Senoufo or Touareg created for the Colonial Exhibition of 1931. Below you can see some of the beautiful creations of Emile Monier.

at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the rise of stereo photography, clubs began to emerge stereoscopic photography enthusiasts . In fact Stereo - French Club, founded in 1903, is perhaps the first to be created and the only ones who can boast to continue its activity since its inception. Still regularly publishes a newsletter and hold monthly meetings with its members

Returning to the medal, you can see that in the face figure of a mother next appears in relief his daughter in a posture that today it reminds us so popular act of taking a selfie. But if you look more closely, we see that the candles are seeing a view of glass or cardboard. On the table also looks like a camera, something recurring in period photographs

you know when he became the first selfie in history though it may seem, was not invented by Paris Hilton or Britney? Spears. Already in 1839, the American Robert Cornelius at his shop in Philadelphia lamps, a portrait pulled himself. I had to sit about 15 minutes standing to take photo also, Frank Sinatra, in 1938, was one of the pioneers in this movement. Under these lines you can see the" first selfie" known in history as Sinatra pulling one selfie