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188-Year-Old Mystery of Photography's First Human Subjects Solved

Researchers have reportedly identified the location and circumstances of Louis Daguerre's early daguerreotypes, which captured the first human subjects ever photographed in the late 1830s. The findings resolve a long-standing puzzle about where the pioneering French photographer positioned his camera to record these historic street scenes, shedding new light on the very origins of human portraiture in photography.

Why now: New research has resolved a long-standing question about the earliest photographs of people, drawing wide interest.

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