The photo of Paris above is one of the most famous in the history of photography.
Why, because the Nazis were coming and all the Parisians fled? No.
So why are there no Parisians in this daytime photo?
Historians say there is at least one and that's what makes this photograph one of the most famous in history. He's highlighted in red below.
The man has got one leg up, getting his shoes shined.
He is the first human being certified to be captured in a photograph, which is known as a daguerreotype, for Louis Daguerre, the inventor of the technology. The Boulevard du Temple only appears to be empty. Horses and buggies and people walking by were way too fast for Daguerr's 1838 contraption to record. Things had to be perfectly still, or nearly so, and one is very nearly perfectly still when getting one's shoes shined. Historians think there may be at least one other nearly perfectly still Parisian in this daguerreotype; he is directly across the walkway from Boots, allegedly reading a newspaper.
