The Earliest-Born Person We Have a Photograph Of #shorts

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[WiWillemijn]

What I like about that shoeshine picture is that the only reason they're in the picture is because they were standing still long enough for the camera to register them. The streets look completely abandoned but there probably were a lot of people, they just moved too fast for the camera to register them.

[papabird]

I legit thought he was gonna say "he was 11 years old...WHEN THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN." Times was hard back then

[wyldevin]

Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that man does *not* look 114 years old..

[HulksterNevaLies]

Looking like he about to scream at Django and cuss a bunch.

[slsIII]

"I still remember the time Mozart dropped his first album"

[ajunlimited]

Imagine you’re just casually getting a shoe shine on a Tuesday afternoon before a hot date and *BOOM* you’ve made history.

[waffleMccoy]

He ignored the shoe shine guy like he wasnt even there.

[BabyBronk]

In the first photo featured is said to actually be of Daguerre getting his shoe shined. Due to early photo technology, exposure time was extremely long so it was incredibly difficult to capture anything that moved. So when Daguerre started this exposure he was able to go out into the street and get his shoe shined. He intentionally stood very still hoping to be captured in the image. He was in fact captured and the shoe shiner was also partially captured, but due to his slight movements when shining shoes he wasn't fully captured in the image. This is said to even be one of the first selfies.

[MahoganyMilkshake]

John Adams is 100 years old in that photo. He lived to be 104. Absolutely incredible

[FlwfCalamity]

John Adams looks like he's about to try and rebuild his intergalactic empire

[Humble-ique]

For a split second I thought he was gonna say that John Adam's guy was 11yrs old when he was photographed 😂

[JonatasAdoM]

Man, the first portrait picture ever looks REALLY good.

[henrlima]

How cool is it that the first person photographed was getting a shoe shine, and the earliest born person to have a photograph is a shoe maker.

[oisinmaccumhaill]

My guess is that the year of Caesar’s birth was just written terribly, and he was actually born in 1787. Which would make him at least 60 years old at the time of that photograph being taken.

[jaffa]

I find it incredible that some fella just woke up one day and became a massive part of history without ever knowing it

[YoutubeCensorship.]

The ghosts of history have no names. Their history has been forgotten. It still gives me shivers to see a picture from 100 years ago, knowing that no one in the photo has a surviving descendant who remembers anything about them. Everything they ever were or had been, every laugh and tear, every heart throb and pain lost and meaningless to time.

[supersophisticated]

“meaning he was 11 when Mozart was born.” Damn, wtf? I can't believe it.

[taevon]

Imagine being alive when Mozart was born. Then imagine seeing dude making bangers when they first came out

[grandandroid]

I feared that he would say "this guy was eleven years old when the photograph was taken" 🤣🤣🤣

[jenm]

The Caesar pic is so high quality it’s eerie