1838 “the daguerreotype required very long exposures to form an image on the surface of a silver plate. It’s likely that this was a busy street at the time, but because the image would have taken several minutes to form, only the figure standing still—getting his boots shined?—shows up.” Nicholas Jackson : “The First Photograph of a Human”

1838

“the daguerreotype required very long exposures to form an image on the surface of a silver plate. It’s likely that this was a busy street at the time, but because the image would have taken several minutes to form, only the figure standing still—getting his boots shined?—shows up.”

Nicholas Jackson : “The First Photograph of a Human”