3. Oldest Photograph With A Human In It
Once again, our old pal, Louis Daguerre, comes through with a photographic first. And this is when photography finally captured what seemed impossible: human life. As seen in the photograph, it may just be a mundane day, with the small figures in the lefthand corner just living their daily lives. But little did they know, they would become the first humans to be in a successful photograph.
The photograph was taken from a window in Daguerre’s studio beside the Diorama de Louis Daguerre at 5 Rue des Marais, behind the Place du Château-d’Eau. An interesting fact about this photograph is that the street shown below would normally be crowded with pedestrians, vendors and other people living their lives. However, because the method had an exposure time of ten minutes, the only people captured here were the ones who kept still for that long. So this is actually a sort of eerie photo if you think about it. So many people were there, only two were captured in the oldest image of humans.
