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That was a nice article, and amusing that the first "photo" of that Paris street is still better than 99.9% of the shots taken today.

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First photograph of a person.

This is usually credited as the first photograph.

https://www.artandobject.com/news/what-you-might-not-know-ab...

Text says "the world’s oldest surviving photograph", so I guess there were other known (or suspected?) photographs even before that, just not any that we still have a copy of?

Nothing really compare to a well made daguerreotype.

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