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Re:The first photograph of a human being (1838) by deepnet on Thursday November 05, 2015 @08:54PM (#10517424)
William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835 photographed a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot#/media/File:L...

Fox Talbot and Daguerre were contemporary inventors with different processes - but AFAIK there are no people in Fox Talbot's work until 1840 so Daguerre appears to be the first to record a human via this new technology.

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Re:The first photograph of a human being (1838) by moron4hire on Thursday November 05, 2015 @09:08PM (#10517473)
To think, less than 200 years later and we can capture moving images of three dimensional light (RE: Lytro Immerge announcement earlier this week).
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