Unidentified man about – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Unidentified man about comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Unidentified man about
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A daguerreotype from 1844 shows a man whose name has been lost, and that absence is part of what makes the plate worth a look. Daguerreotypes were positive images made on silver-coated copper, each one a unique object with a mirror-like surface that shifts with the viewing angle. By the mid-1840s, the process had been public for only a few years, and portraits like this one were often sat for in studios by people who were making their first experience with photography. Because the sitter is unidentified, the image rests on its material qualities and the period's portrait conventions rather than on a known life story.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,314 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 391_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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