A Shoe Shiner on Boulevard Du Temple
Take a look at the road down below, and you’ll see a shoe shiner from 1839 doing what he did best to earn a living by shining a customer’s shoes on Boulevard du Temple in Paris, France. French artist Louis Daguerre was responsible for what’s known as the first mirror-image photo—an early type of photography. This was a huge accomplishment since most people were shown in paintings only up until this moment. So naturally, Daguerre was classified as one of photography’s first fathers.
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