Pizza Slow, likeafieldmouse: The First Photograph of a Human Being “This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy who 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

Figure 1. mirrored image from https://66.media.tumblr.com/5a2a009a71d698dfad8848a2f806b809/tumblr_nc2akvbGVx1qe31lco1_500.jpg without alt text, sorry.

The First Photograph of a Human Being

“This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy who 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.”

September 19th, 2014 8:45pm

Posted on Tumblr over 11 years ago and archived here at /tumblr/2014/09/19/likeafieldmouse-the-first-photograph-of-a-human/ in the Tumblr collection.

Proximate posts in the Tumblr collection
newer	sesamestreet:	20 September 2014
this post	likeafieldmouse: The First Photograph of a Human Being “This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy who 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.”	20 September 2014
older	magictransistor: The Kingsmen. In Person. Wand Records. 1963.	20 September 2014

Proximate posts in the General collection
newer	sesamestreet:	20 September 2014
this post	likeafieldmouse: The First Photograph of a Human Being “This photograph of Boulevard du Temple in Paris was made in 1838 by Louis Daguerre, the brilliant guy who 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.”	20 September 2014
older	magictransistor: The Kingsmen. In Person. Wand Records. 1963.	20 September 2014