What is the Chignipicance?
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This is a pic of Boulevard du Temple, in Paris. It was taken in spring of 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the Daguerrotype process of developing photos. The pic shows a man standing in an otherwise empty boulevard, getting his shoes shined. Why is the pic significant?
Sparky is spot on
This pic is the first photograph of a person. More here.
"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.