Portrait of a bearded man in a cased daguerreotype – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Portrait of a bearded man in a cased daguerreotype. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Portrait of a bearded man in a cased daguerreotype
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A bearded man sits for this portrait in 1840, one of the earliest years that photography could fix a face onto a silvered copper plate. The image is a daguerreotype, a process announced in France in 1839 that produced a single, mirror-like positive with no negative to copy from, so every example is unique. Exposures ran many minutes, which is why early sitters were often held still with head braces and kept a serious expression. The case that would have protected the plate, usually a small hinged box of leather or pressed paper, was part of the object's original design, and it is worth noticing how the image seems to shift between positive and negative depending on the angle of light.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Original scan | 3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 473_Unidentified_man_possib_1840 |
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