Portrait of an unidentified man, daguerreotype copy – Vintage Photo Print
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This historic photograph of Portrait of an unidentified man, daguerreotype copy brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Portrait of an unidentified man, daguerreotype copy
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A sitter whose name has been lost, and a picture that survives only as a copy, is the particular feature of this one. The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process, announced in Paris in 1839, and by 1850 studios across the United States and Europe were turning out small mirror-bright plates of ordinary people. Those plates were fragile, easily tarnished and hard to reproduce, so later copies like this one were often made to preserve or share a likeness. Looking closely, the viewer is seeing a photograph of a photograph, a reminder of how these early images passed from hand to hand.
| Created / published | 1850 |
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| Original scan | 3,316 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 652_Unidentified_man_about_1850 |
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