Comments on: The first photograph of human beings ever https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/28/the-first-photograph-of-human/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:18:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Domestigoth https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/28/the-first-photograph-of-human/#comment-525493 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:18:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/28/the-first-photograph-of-human/#comment-525493 I remember studying this image as part of an art history class back in university — looking at the entire thing is actually rather surreal, because you can see this big, seemingly empty street, with just two people (one of whom has invisible hands) and nothing else.

Entire image is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boulevard_du_Temple_by_Daguerre.jpg

The lecture was surrounding the idea of photographs as being more “true” than art; obviously photographic imaging can miss things that the eye can see (or sometimes pick up things that the eye doesn’t see). Made for some interesting discussions about the nature of “truth” and “proof” in photographs.

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