From Wikipedia:

Caesar (c. 1737 (supposedly) – 1852) was a slave who is notable for possibly being the earliest-born person ever photographed while alive, when his daguerreotype was taken in 1851.[1] He was also the last slave to be manumitted in New York.

  • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 days ago

    To add onto this, I had to look up:

    Daguerreotype[note 1] was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used from the 1830s to 1850s. “Daguerreotype” also refers to an image created through this process.