Posted on 10/28/2010 7:18:43 PM PDT by roses of sharon
This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy that invented the daguerreotype process of photography. Aside from its distinction of being a super early photograph, it’s also the first photograph to ever include a human being. Because the image required an exposure time of over ten minutes, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappear from the scene. However, in the bottom left hand corner is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.
If he was having his shoes shined would’t that be two people?
Must be an old guy still hanging on to an older style of hat, tricorn hats started going out of of style in the 1790s but hung on among the "older" crowd for a number of years after that.
Maybe three, seems to be someone sitting on a bench nearer the shops or houses, waiting for the next shoeshine?
“...the first presidential photo of an aging Andrew Jackson. The president was so impressed with the daguerreotype process that he had the federal government pay to have daguerreotype made of the veterans and Jackson. The process was so expensive at the time that it cost nearly $10,000 per daguerreotype in today’s money.”
So the Fed was ripping the taxpayers even in those days.
Yes, quite a stumper indeed.....What COULD it BE? Hmmmm... *think think*
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It is... Look carefully.
I think . . . I think I see the person . . . could it be? . . . talking on a cell phone!
Here are a few of those daguerreotypes of Revolutionary War veterans that you mentioned:
http://www.americanrevolution.org/last%20men/lastmen3.html
Amazing to see these and think of how they were there at the very beginning.
I hope its not sacreligious to mention this, but Jesus looks a lot like a mid-80s Hulk Hogan. Not quite as bulky, but definitely not the ectomorph that appears in most crucifices.
Sad about Lou Gehrig, though. What are the odds?
<);P
I have a photo of my great grandfather from 1863
in his Union Army uniform. It is on a glass substrate
with copper frame to cover the sharp edges.
Well then the title is wrong.
Should say “the first humans” photographed. Not that it’s important, just bad journalism. Nothing new here.
That is so cool!
and the first presidential photo of an aging Andrew Jackson.
Even cooler!
But then, isn't there some overlap between the two groups? I understand Andrew Jackson enlisted in the Revolutionary War as a thirteen-year-old.
Isn’t that a daguerreotype?
Mr. Photograph!
btt
The guy stood with the same shoe being shined for the over 10 minutes it took to make the photo?
I’m really questioning that motion by every other person, carriage and horse caused them to vanish from the photo, but these two appear so clearly in one position.
Same here. Mainly tintypes but dags too.
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