The First Candid

In 1838, Louis Daguerre captured what is believed to be the first photograph of human beings—a shoemaker and his client on Paris's Boulevard du Temple—an accidental image that required a ten-minute exposure time. Nearly two centuries later, filmmaker Maximilien Van Aertryck and his colleagues embarked on an eighteen-month investigation to pinpoint the exact location where this historic photograph was taken, using archival research, drones, and measuring tapes to overcome challenges posed by the neighborhood's transformation.