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Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre - the first practial photo process 1837 (daguerreotype)
He was a Student of Niepce and carried on working and improving his process.

Self Portrait
Still Life in his Studio 1837

Boulevard du Temple, Paris 1838,
normally a very busy street,
but anything moving was not captured by the camera,
but the shoe shine boy and his customer were still enough to be captured.
The first photograph of a human being




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