From The For What Its Worth Department

Don't know if you have seen this before but it is historically interesting. A number of historians think it is the 1st photo of a human being. The date is 1838. Taken by Louis Daguerre and entitled "Boulevard du Temple" in Paris. The streets are not empty but filled with persons and vehicles that are moving too fast for the seven minute exposure. The two figures in the lower left corner are of a man getting his boots shined by a bootblack and thus are relatively stable.

Who is this man and what is his story? A fertile field for the imagination.

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You have to think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being.

I like to know that all that's been seen by that eye but missed because it couldn't see it. Of course, this technology would make Blow Up a completely different film.

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5-time MoFo Award winner.