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[–]Cybercommie 16 points17 points ago

It is not Daguerre in '38 my friend, it is by Nicephore Niepce in 1827 of the view from his window at the village of Gras.

[–]gnome_chomsky 3 points4 points ago

And it blows my mind that it currently resides in my hometown.

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[–]Twiggles5 2 points3 points ago

haha, nice answer. why don't you just ask a photography major, im sure they will know better than Wikipedia

[–]Chisel 1 point2 points ago

Ok, and what is it?

[–]HolyMoholyNagy 6 points7 points ago*

It's a view out of his window (in Paris, I believe), the "film" was exposed for about 8 hours or so, so both sides of the buildings are lit by the sun.

Edit: Also worth seeing, this photo by Daguerre, of a busy street. Even though the street was bustling with people at the time, only the shoe shiner and his customer are visible, due to the long exposure.

[–]leighbo 1 point2 points ago

wow that looks like a charcoal drawing

[–]thefriendlysinner 0 points1 point ago

The "Film" itself was actually a special type of tar that hardened after exposure to sunlight, I believe he placed it on a silvered peice of lead and cleaned the remainder off. I just did a massive report on photography for a chemistry class, so i'm in photo nerd mode.

[–]g0wr0n 1 point2 points ago

It's an imperial destroyer that has crash-landed on Naboo.

[–]ClampingNomads 1 point2 points ago

so 1838 almost didn't happen?

[–]viejodava 1 point2 points ago

a high resolution picture of a low resolution picture

[–]wisyf 1 point2 points ago

Taken by using asfalt. that's it, that's all I know

[–]slartbarg 1 point2 points ago

ENHANCE!

[–]MovingPavements 0 points1 point ago

The smaller the picture the clearer it looks.

[–]binaryechoes 0 points1 point ago

... with a baked potato.

[–]Kkbow38 0 points1 point ago

These kids an their abstract art...

[–]Jesterfellah -1 points0 points ago

Let's see some of that Reddit worthy shooping on this baby!

[–]DishwasherTwig -1 points0 points ago

This is proof of aliens. It's clear as day right there.

[–]robo23 -3 points-2 points ago

That's a shop - I can tell by all the pixels and grainyness and such.