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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length – Historic Photo Reproduction

Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length

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Few surviving images from 1844 show a face with this much detail, and this half-length portrait of a bearded man is a good example of what the daguerreotype could capture in its first decade. The process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a silver-coated copper plate, so each portrait was a unique object rather than a print from a negative. Sitters of the period often had to hold still for many seconds, which makes the calm, steady expression worth noticing. Daguerreotypes like this one were typically sealed behind glass in small cases, and their mirror-like surface reflects the viewer as the image is tilted.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference427_Unidentified_man_halfle_1844

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