It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each of ...

An oil painting by 19th-century Cantonese artist Lam Qua shows a woman with a young child seated on her lap. The pair appears healthy at first glance. Fancy blue earrings dangle from the woman’s ears.

As anyone who has tried to take the perfect selfie likely knows, getting these kinds of images just right can take a lot of practice. As a contemporary iteration of the age-old self-portrait tradition ...