View of the Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, 1838 | Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Researchers have pinpointed the exact location of Louis Daguerre’s 1838 View of the Boulevard du Temple — the first photograph to capture human beings.

188 years ago, Daguerre — the French scientist who invented the Daguerreotype process — set up his camera at the upstairs window of his Paris studio to photograph the street below.

At first glance, Daguerre’s image View of the Boulevard du Temple seems to show a deserted street, but two individuals were captured during the four- to five-minute-long exposure time..…