This is the very first photo ever taken by a camera that shows a human being. Actually there are two humans doing a shoe-shine, seen on the bottom left, by the pavement curve. The photographer Louis Daguerre used a long exposure of 10 minutes, and so there must have been other people moving around, but these two were still for a long time, and they are shown as if standing. The place is in Paris, the Place de la Republique, although it has changed since then. The year was 1838, almost 190 years ago. Louis Daguerre was a painter and printmaker, and took this photo from his studio after he had invented the Daguerreotype method of photography.
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