Boulevard du Temple (photograph)
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Boulevard du Temple[1] is the name given to a daguerreotype photo taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838. It is purportedly the first-ever photograph of a person. The image shows a busy street, the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear.
The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture.
Look closely and you will also see another man sitting on a bench to the right reading a newspaper.
Also in the upper left hand side you can also see another man standing under the awning of the 3rd building from the left. What looks to be a woman standing under the street lantern at 10 o'clock from the man getting his shoes shined and another one in the big white building,1st row 3rd window down.
Notice the child in the top floor window of the white building in front. Note that the image is a mirror image.
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