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Bicentenary of photography: In search of the first person in a photograph

Bicentenary of photography: In search of the first person in a photograph
Photo: Le Monde in English · view original

To mark the bicentenary of the invention of photography, Paris is paying tribute to the shoe shiner and his customer, who were inadvertently immortalized by Louis Daguerre in the spring of 1838.

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