The First Candid

(newyorker.com)

16 points | by Thevet 22 hours ago

3 comments

delichon 0 minutes ago
So this was not a deserted street with two people on it, it was just that the exposure was so long that only the two nearly motionless people were captured on film. This just has to be a good metaphor for something.
programd 6 minutes ago
For the record this is the actual photo discussed in the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_%28photogr...
donbox 23 minutes ago
Paywalled :(
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- masfuerte 22 minutes ago
  I didn't notice. I have JS disabled and it just works.
- embedding-shape 7 minutes ago
  And also seemingly they put the worst possible version of the photo? Wikipedia has much better versions on the right-hand side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...