<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple" class="extiw" title="en:Boulevard du Temple">Boulevard du Temple</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris" class="extiw" title="en:Paris">Paris</a>, 3rd arrondissement, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype" class="extiw" title="en:Daguerreotype">Daguerreotype</a>. Made in 1838 by inventor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Daguerre" class="extiw" title="en:Louis Daguerre">Louis Daguerre</a>, this is believed to be the earliest photograph showing a living person. It is a view of a busy street, but because the exposure lasted for 4 to 5 minutes (see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reclamebeeld.nl/shutter-speed-time-of-the-first-image-human-daguerre-photo-boulevard-du-temple-paris/">shutter speed Daguerre photo explained</a>) 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. As with most daguerreotypes, the image is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mirror_image" class="extiw" title="en:mirror image">mirror image</a>.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Louis_Daguerre" class="extiw" title="w:en:Louis Daguerre"><span title="French photographer, artist and chemist and inventor of the Daguerrotype (1787-1851)">Louis Daguerre</span></a>
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between 24 April 1838 and 4 May 1838 (or possibly 1837)
Scanned from The Photography Book, Phaidon Press, London, 1997.