Seated man in dark coat, early photographic portrait – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Seated man in dark coat, early photographic portrait. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Seated man in dark coat, early photographic portrait
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A seated man in a dark coat, captured in 1844, places this portrait among the earliest working generation of photographic likenesses. Daguerreotypes of this period were made on silvered copper plates, so each one is a single unique image rather than a print that could be copied from a negative. Because exposures often ran for several minutes, sitters were asked to hold still, and their stillness gives the picture its formal, composed look. Early portraits like this one are valued today as records of how ordinary people first sat for the camera, and they show the sharp detail and mirror-like surface that made daguerreotypes so striking to their first viewers.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 1,183 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 357_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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