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Boulevard du Temple is a photograph of a Parisian streetscape made in 1838 (or possibly 1837 [1]), and is one of the earliest surviving daguerreotype plates produced by Louis Daguerre. [2] Although the image seems to be of a deserted street, it is widely considered to be the first photograph to include an image of a human.
Daguerrotype portrait of a Daguerreotypist displaying Daguerreotypes and Cases pictured in an airtight frame, 1845 Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre in 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot. Daguerreotype [note 1] was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image ...
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (/ d ə ˈ ɡ ɛər / ⓘ də-GAIR; French: [lwi ʒɑk mɑ̃de daɡɛʁ]; 18 November 1787 – 10 July 1851) was a French scientist, artist and photographer, recognized for his invention of the eponymous daguerreotype process of photography. He became known as one of the fathers of photography.
Original - The Boulevard du Temple was a haunt of Parisian lowlife in 1838 when this very early photograph was taken by Louis Daguerre, probably from the window of his apartment at 5 rue des Marais. The exposure of several minutes has blurred the traffic and the figures with the exception of the man having his boots polished.
A photograph of this street was taken in 1838 by Louis Daguerre from high in his 350-seat Diorama Building at 4, Rue Sanson, where it intersected with the Rue des Marais, and which from the rear looked out roughly southwards over the rooftops towards the Boulevard du Temple (since demolished, the place where it stood is at the south side of the ...
The film's name is a complex pun: The street, Rue Daguerre, is named after Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotypes method of photographic printing. During a voiceover in the film, Varda explains that the business owners and occupants of Rue Daguerre are her 'types', in reference to typologies both as the photographic style and practices ...
Daguerre would later co-invent the daguerreotype, the first widely used method of photography. [9] A second diorama in Regent's Park in London was opened by an association of British men (having bought Daguerre's tableaux) in 1823, a year after the debut of Daguerre's Paris original. [10] The building was designed by Augustus Charles Pugin.
[3] [4] It is outside the Old Patent Office Building, now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, on 7th Street N.W., near F Street, in Washington. [5] The figure was cast by the Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company of New York. The inscriptions read: (Front of granite base, just below bust:) DAGUERRE (Side of ...