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0 pointsa3w1y ago0 comments

> 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?

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paulluuk1y ago

From the page linked:

> First photographic records of already described (but obviously relatively uncommon or cryptic) species

amanaplanacanal1y ago

Humans have been photographed before and are therefore out of scope.

gertlex1y 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!)

alnwlsn1y ago

It seems to be this one taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...

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