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From a photo caption in the article: > The first photograph of a human: a man getting his shoes shined on a Parisian street corner, by Louis Daguerre, 1839 I
by hammock 4y ago
From a photo caption in the article:
> The first photograph of a human: a man getting his shoes shined on a Parisian street corner, by Louis Daguerre, 1839
I believe there are two humans there, one getting shined and the other doing the shining
- jahewson 4y agoTouché.
- scatters 4y agoNo, the person doing the shining isn't visible in the photograph. Did you actually look at it?
- soneca 4y agoWhat? Of course you can see it! Have you actually look at it?
- scatters 4y agoThat's a tree. It's likely that part of the person doing the shining is visible from behind the tree, but there's too much motion blur for them to be distinct.
- soneca 4y agoIn my view, I can see what is clear, to me, a right arm, a left elbow. I can also see the head, but that one might be part of the tree (actually, a wider wood board supporting the thin tree, like in other trees around), but it seems unlikely to me. I can also see the right and left legs of what is probably a boy sitting over a box. In my perception, I see what is probably 80% of a boy’s body, covered only by a thin tall branch of a young tree. I would definitely not say it is the picture of only one human.
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