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[Antonio Macco, half-length portrait, facing right] – Vintage Photo Print

[Antonio Macco, half-length portrait, facing right] — historic print
[Antonio Macco, half-length portrait, facing right]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Antonio Macco, half-length portrait, facing right], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Antonio Macco, half-length portrait, facing right]

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Antonio Macco appears here in a half-length portrait turned to the right, a pose that was a common convention for printed portraits in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The record does not give a date or describe his career, so the subject's role and the circumstances of the sitting remain unknown. The print is a halftone, a photomechanical process that broke a photograph into a pattern of dots so it could be reproduced in books, periodicals, and newspapers. Its dot pattern is worth examining, since it shows how the image was adapted for mass printing.

Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,200 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124833

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