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No photos of humans interestingly.

• paulluuk 2y ago
  They're not exactly "relatively uncommon or cryptic"
  • a3w 2y ago
    > This project is designed to showcase the first known photographs of living specimens of any species. Where does it say they need to be rare?
    • amanaplanacanal 2y ago
      Humans have been photographed before and are therefore out of scope.
      • gertlex 2y ago
        They're more specifically out of scope because the first person to ever photograph+publish a picture of a human (which would fit the upload rules as I read it), is long since deceased ;) (I'm sure someone on here could point us to which photo this would be, though!)
        • alnwlsn 2y ago
          It seems to be this one taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograph) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...
    • paulluuk 2y ago
      From the page linked: > First photographic records of already described (but obviously relatively uncommon or cryptic) species