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Nov. 8, 2010 — Who was the first person ever to be photographed? A president? A general on the eve of battle? An assistant to a tinkerer somewhere, sort of the Mr. Watson of the camera obscura set? We don’t know who he was, actually. We know only that he strolled on to a busy Paris street one day in the Spring of 1838, that he stopped to have his boots shined, and that he stopped long enough to appear on a Daguerreotype with an exposure time of more than 10 minutes. Of all the people on the street that day - of all the merchants, officers and keen-eyed flaneurs - only he and the person kneeling...Read full article

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