The First Photograph of a Human Ever Taken

(via Peta Pixel)

The photograph above is of Boulevard du Temple in Paris 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 (see enlargement on left) is a man who just so happened to stay somewhat still during the shot — he was having his shoes shined.