First photograph of a human being

I simply love antiques, as you probably know and included in my passion , are old photographs, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, etc. Did you see my post with some of my collection?

Just came across this wonderful blog: http://www.hokumburg.com, would like to respectfully put this on my blog, because antiques and photography are great passions of mine.

From his website:

"This is a Daguerreotype taken by the inventor of the process, Louis Daguerre, in 1838. It is a view of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. To achieve this image (one of his earliest attempts), he exposed a chemically treated metal plate for ten minutes. Others were walking or riding in carriages down that busy street that day, but because they moved, they didn't show up. Only this guy stood still long enough—maybe to have his boots shined—to leave an image.
Other primitive forms of photography had preceded this picture by over a decade. But this anonymous shadowy man is the first human being to ever have his picture taken. There is also the very faint image of the bootblack bent over his work.
Odds are neither of them ever knew they were making history that day."

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FASCINATING!

More amazing shots here (the zoom feature is amazing!):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/09/20/129990964/once-in-a-lifetime-river-tour-starts-here-unfortunately-everybody-s-deadhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/09/20/129990964/once-in-a-lifetime-river-tour-starts-here-unfortunately-everybody-s-dead