To provide an imaging apparatus capable of selecting an image according more to an intention of an imaging person from among images taken continuously.

On the basis of faces selected from each of a plurality of images, an evaluation value to be used for selecting one image from the images is calculated for each of the images. From among the images, an image the calculated evaluation value of which is the largest is selected. If there are a plurality of images the calculated evaluation values of which are the largest, an image taken earliest is selected.