Curious about what we know of the early reactions to the invention, debates over if it violated the relevant hadith, positions of different schools of thought, differences regarding men vs women and children vs adults, popular reception, etc.
Given that many Muslims would come to find themselves ruled by European empires, are there any accounts of the reactions to the odd reporter or visiting anthropologist taking a shot? What about photographing Muslim mosques and holy sites?
Also, the 8th century Caliphs' palace in Jordan named Qasr Amra is well known for its frescoes of people and nude women. So was this an exception, or the general unspoken rule that this "depiction of people forbidden" thing wasn't really taken seriously (and, of course, the "no naked ladies" thing)?
Suppose we can throw in the earliest video cameras as well; would be interesting to know if film was treated any differently than still images.
While taboo is too strong a word for al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), the discomfort with the concept of figural representation can clearly be seen in its complete absence from religious settings: you won't find a human or animal form in a mosque or a Quran from the Iberian Peninsula. By contrast, there are many representations of people and animals on luxury objects, such as silks, metalworks, and ivories, particularly from the 10th-15th centuries, which shows that figural imagery was considered perfectly appropriate for secular settings.
A good source for images and explanatory essays is the exhibition catalog Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (ed. Jerrilynn Dodds), which can be freely downloaded from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Al_Andalus_The_Art_of_Islamic_Spain#