Publisher's Synopsis
"In 1839, American artist and telegraph inventor Samuel F. B. Morse and scenic artist Louis Daguerre, whose daguerreotype ushered in the new world of photography, meet for the first time at Daguerre's studio in Paris. In one of Daguerre's images they discover a silhouetted figured getting a shoeshine, so they devise a scheme to obtain the identity of this first human ever depicted in a photographic image"--.
