Portrait of an unidentified man with curly hair – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Portrait of an unidentified man with curly hair, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Portrait of an unidentified man with curly hair
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Few details survive about the sitter here beyond his curly hair, which the photographer rendered with surprising softness for an 1844 plate. Daguerreotypes of this period were made on silvered copper sheets, exposed for minutes at a time, so subjects had to hold still while the image formed in the mirror-like surface. Because the image sits on polished metal, its tones shift with the angle of light, and this one shows the sharp, mirrored clarity that made the process so striking to viewers at the time. Early portraits like this one offer a direct look at how ordinary people chose to present themselves in the first years of photography.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 371_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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