Above: “Boulevard du Temple,” by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
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In 1837 or 1838, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, a Frenchman best known at the time as the proprietor of the Diorama, a popular Parisian spectacle featuring theatrical painting and lighting effects, made an astonishing image of a Parisian street.

The photograph was taken …