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From a photo caption in the article:

> The first photograph of a human: a man getting his shoes shined on a Parisian street corner, by Louis Daguerre, 1839

I believe there are two humans there, one getting shined and the other doing the shining



No, the person doing the shining isn't visible in the photograph. Did you actually look at it?


What? Of course you can see it! Have you actually look at it?


That's a tree. It's likely that part of the person doing the shining is visible from behind the tree, but there's too much motion blur for them to be distinct.


In my view, I can see what is clear, to me, a right arm, a left elbow. I can also see the head, but that one might be part of the tree (actually, a wider wood board supporting the thin tree, like in other trees around), but it seems unlikely to me. I can also see the right and left legs of what is probably a boy sitting over a box.

In my perception, I see what is probably 80% of a boy’s body, covered only by a thin tall branch of a young tree.

I would definitely not say it is the picture of only one human.


Touché.




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