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| 1st Photograph of a Person: "Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre," PDF Download
You get a PDF Downloadable copy of the original picture Boulevard du Temple, Paris, IIIe arrondissement, Daguerreotype. The purportedly first picture of a living person. The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is the man at the bottom left, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show. 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. If you stare at that 1838 Daguerreotype long enough you start seeing things. Now whether those things are actually in the picture or in my mind I'll let you judge. I see way in the background a carriage with a couple of horses and closer some guy, it could be a woman with a headscarf, in an overcoat sitting on the roof. See also above of what street looks like today.
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