Oldest picture of a living person (1838)

Arkoquisa · #1 ● 03-21-2011, 03:13 AM

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forgot the date, its in paris, the man getting his shoe shined and the shoe shiner, were the only people sanding still enough though the 20 min exposure, so the streets had people walking though, the information i remember from a class i had

gatagato · #2 ● 03-21-2011, 06:11 AM

"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris, was the first photograph of a person. The image shows a street, but because of the over ten minute exposure time the moving traffic does not appear. The exceptions are the man and shoe-shine boy at the bottom left, and two people sitting at a table nearby who stood still long enough to have their images captured.

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Thanks!