http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101027/od_yblog_upshot/very-early-photographic-images-of-humans-discovered
This image has been recently discovered and is believed to be one of the the first photographic images of humans. This photo is called a daguerreotype - "an image developed via an early photographic process developed in France" - and was taken on Sunday, September 24th, 1848 by Charles Fontayne and William Porter.
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| A close up of the photo, showing humans |
In case you're wondering, below is currently the record holder for oldest photograph of humans - it is a daguerreotype taken by the inventor of the process, Louis Daguerre, in 1838 (says another article attached to this yahoo article).
I read about this picture(the last one) in one of my classes in high-school. Its called boulevard du temple and is a picture of a very busy Paris street but because the exposure time was well over 10 minutes the traffic was moving too fast to appear. However, you can see a guy who is getting his shoe polished at the bottom of the picture. He stood there long enough to be captured in the picture.
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