Elderly man with spectacles, daguerreotype portrait – Historic Photograph Print
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Elderly man with spectacles, daguerreotype portrait in remarkable detail. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Elderly man with spectacles, daguerreotype portrait
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A daguerreotype from 1844 gives us a rare look at an older sitter wearing spectacles, a detail that was still unusual enough in early photography to draw the eye. The process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a polished silver-coated copper plate, so each portrait was one-of-a-kind and could not be copied. Exposures ran from several seconds to a minute or more, which required sitters to hold still in bright light, and the faces in such portraits often carry a stern, fixed quality. Viewed today, the image records both the new technology and the ordinary people who first sat for it.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,309 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 409_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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