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Daguerreotype portrait of a balding man in a dark suit – Historic Photograph Print

Daguerreotype portrait of a balding man in a dark suit, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a balding man in a dark suit, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Daguerreotype portrait of a balding man in a dark suit, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a balding man in a dark suit

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Daguerreotypes from 1844 are rare survivors of the earliest years of photography, when each image was a single positive plate on polished silver and could not be copied. This portrait shows a balding man in a dark suit, and the record gives no name, so the sitter's identity remains unknown. In the 1840s, a sitter had to hold still for several minutes in strong daylight or a glass-roofed studio, which is why many faces from this era look fixed and serious. The mirror-like surface of the plate also means the image shifts in tone as the viewer moves, a quality worth noticing in person.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference474_Unidentified_man_possib_1844

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