The first photograph of a living person was taken by Louis Daguerre in The photo depicts a figure on an otherwise empty avenue in Paris in the middle of an afternoon But there rsquo s an apparent mystery about it the street and sidewalks should have been bustling with the traffic of carriages and pedestrians at that time of day yet none can be seen The man wasn rsquo t alone People and horses were there on the busy Boulevard du Temple the popular area where the photo was taken They just didn rsquo t show up in the picture [... more]