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Boulevard du Temple was taken in Paris in 1838/1839 by Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerrotype process – the first commercially successful photographic process. The picture’s of a street scene, but the 10+ mins exposure time captured the man getting his boots polished in the bottom left of the shot – the only thing (other than the building) who kept still enough to be captured.  

Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre - featuring the world's 1st photo of a human

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