Deteriorated daguerreotype portrait of a seated figure – Vintage Photo Print
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A window into the past: Deteriorated daguerreotype portrait of a seated figure, preserved in this historic photograph. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Deteriorated daguerreotype portrait of a seated figure
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A deteriorated daguerreotype from 1844 shows a seated figure, and the damage is part of its story: the silvered copper plate has clouded and flaked in places, the image surfacing only where the mirror-bright surface survives. Daguerreotypes were made on polished silver-plated copper sheets, each one a unique positive with no negative to reprint from, so surface loss of this kind is permanent. Portraits of this period required subjects to sit motionless for many seconds or even minutes in bright light, which makes the pose and stillness a record of the sitting itself. Dating from the earliest years of commercial photography, the plate is a rare survivor of a process that was already fragile when it was new.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,281 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 443_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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