The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Changed from 180 Years Ago

Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by culot on Saturday August 25, 2018 @12:24PM (#17841411)

It's those 2000 year old photos that I hanker for. :) 200 years ago is magical, 2000 years ago would be incredible. Oh, to peruse the stinky streets of Herculaneum!

Gosh, I hope humanity can keep it up for another 2000 years, keeping out heritage and history well-recorded.

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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by modzu on Saturday August 25, 2018 @03:56PM (#17842310)

well we have something better than photos from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians -- sculpture! ex. the bust of nefertiti (~1345 BC)

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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday August 25, 2018 @05:12PM (#17842596)

Artists rendition.

When I look at the bust of Nefertiti I like to imagine Nefertiti saying something like "destroy it, make the nose a little smaller, then execute the artist".

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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by kqr on Saturday August 25, 2018 @05:28PM (#17842661)

To be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.

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Re:The First Photo of a Human Being, and How the Scene's Cha... by agumonkey on Saturday August 25, 2018 @04:18PM (#17842388)

or a mummy

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