This is a amazing early photograph by Platt Babbitt in 1853. According the the Library of Congress who holds this photo "Three men boating in the Niagara River were overwhelmed by the river's strong current, lost control of their boat, and crashed into a rock. The current carried two men immediately over the Falls to their deaths. The daguerreotype shows the third man, stranded on a log which had jammed between two rocks. He weathered the current for eighteen hours before succumbing to the river. The image is an early example of a news photograph."
Photo from America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotype Portraits and Views, 1839-1864
2 comments:
Amazing. thanks!
f*ck they had time to take a picture with one of those old-timey cameras but couldn't get a rope to help him out?
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