William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835 photographed a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot#/media/File:Latticed_window_at_l

William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835 photographed a latticed window at Lacock Abbey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fox_Talbot#/media/File:Latticed_window_at_lacock_abbey_1835.jpg 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.