Louis Daguerre announces the latest perfection of…
January 1839 CE
Louis Daguerre announces the latest perfection of the Daguerreotype, after years of experimentation, in 1839, with the French Academy of Sciences announcing the process on January 9 of this year.
He had taken he first photograph of the Moon January 2.
"Boulevard du Temple,” taken by Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839 in Paris, is the first photograph of a person.
The image shows a busy street, but because exposure time was over 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.
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Louis Daguerre: Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3. Arrondissement )1838) Daguerreotype. Believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure time was at least ten minutes the moving traffic left no trace. Only the two men near the bottom left corner, one apparently having his boots polished by the other, stayed in one place long enough to be visible. Note that, as with most daguerreotypes, the image is a mirror image.
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