the latest photo

most SLR cameras have a time delay so you can set up a shot and then walk into the field of view before the shot is made. So its quite easy to take a shot in which you are included as one of the subjects.

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But the fact is, the photo was taken a hundred years ago....

well, that could have been accomplished with a slow spring trip timer (they had em then) or use an assistant. Steiglitz used assistants when he took pix of himself or himself and his main squeeze, and Steiglitz was considered the photographer.

Why didn't you mention the age of the pic when you asked the question? Your title said "latest photo", that speaks of contemporaneity , not history.

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So if now I want to have a photo myself in it, and my friend takes it; later can I say I took the photo?

If it's a hundred years old, then 'latest' isn't possible, WB.

This is the last photo that he took.

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Is it because that person must be dead?

We use 'latest' to mean 'most recent' when we are talking about an item in a current series which will definitely or possibly continue, or that has not definitely finished. The latest global warming data, the latest postcard my son sent from Thailand, the latest report from the earthquake zone, the latest sales figures from my restaurant. If a picture was taken a hundred years ago, the photographer is probably dead, and even if he isn't, the sequence has been interrupted too long for 'latest' to be used.

I can appear in a photograph taken by me if I use a time delay or even a mirror; in any case this is not a question of English. If I operated the camera or caused it to be operated, e.g. by an assistant or a machine, I 'took' the picture.

When I was at college we had a group photo taken by a camera that had to move in a circular way to get everyone in. That meant you could stand on one end, wait until the camera had taken your shot, then run round the back in time to appear on the other end.

It's interesting to listen to people talking about their experience!

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