"The first photographic portrait image of a human ever produced.It is from 1839, taken by Robert Cornelius (1809-93)
Robert Cornelius, an American pioneer in photography, produced a daguerreotype
of himself in 1839 which is also one of the first photographsof a
person. Because the process was slow he was able to uncover the lens, run into shot for a minute or more, and then replace the lens cap".
