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.
Archive for October, 2011
First photograph of a human being c.1838
Posted in photography, tagged Boulevard du Temple, daguerrotype, early photography, first photo of a human, Louis Daguerre on October 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »