Bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Wall Art
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype portrait. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Bearded man in dark coat, daguerreotype portrait
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A daguerreotype from 1844 shows a bearded man in a dark coat, a sitter whose name the record does not give us. What we can read in the plate is the look of early portraiture itself. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper sheets, each one a single unique image rather than a print that could be copied, and exposures in 1844 often ran for several minutes, so sitters were asked to hold still with their expressions set. The dark tones and crisp detail that give this portrait its presence are typical of the process, which Louis Daguerre had publicized in France only a few years earlier.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,294 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 370_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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