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Barricades in Paris during the 1848 February Revolution (media.kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Pictures this old are brilliant

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Do you hear the people sing...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Seems they tore up the cobbles and built that first one. Nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are the streets really empty, or were there people in the frame but their motion renders them invisible, as you have to stand still for a daguerrotype?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I mean there seems to be people silhouettes there in the picture

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There’s no picture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So cool.