Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat
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Few early portraits capture a sitter as crisply as this 1844 daguerreotype, which shows a man in a dark coat whose name has been lost to time. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, so the image appears as a mirror-like surface that shifts from positive to negative as the viewer tilts it. Exposures in this period often ran several minutes, which is why sitters were asked to hold still and why their expressions tend to look serious. Pictures like this one offer a direct view of how ordinary people presented themselves just five years after Louis Daguerre's process was publicly announced in 1839.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,271 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 442_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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