Unidentified man, daguerreotype portrait, about 1844 – Vintage Wall Art
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This rare historic photograph captures Unidentified man, daguerreotype portrait, about 1844 in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Unidentified man, daguerreotype portrait, about 1844
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A sitter whose name has been lost to time gives this 1844 daguerreotype its quiet particularity: we see a man exactly as he appeared to the camera nearly two centuries ago, with no record of who he was. The daguerreotype process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single mirror-like plate on silvered copper, so each image is one-of-a-kind and must be viewed at an angle to reveal its tones. Portraits of this period required sitters to hold still for several minutes in strong light, which explains the serious, unsmiling expressions common to the era. Many such plates survive without names, making them valuable to historians studying early American and European portraiture and the spread of photography.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 367_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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