Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat – Vintage Photo Print
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark coat
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A dark-coated gentleman, unnamed in the record, sits for this daguerreotype from 1851, a date that places it squarely in the first decade of commercial portrait photography. Daguerreotypes were made on silvered copper plates, so each one is a single positive image with no negative, and the mirror-like surface reflects the viewer when tilted. Exposures then ran from several seconds to a minute or more, which is why sitters were often posed with head braces and kept still. The sitter's identity is lost here, but the plate itself remains a direct record of how mid-century Americans presented themselves to the camera.
| Created / published | 1851 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,287 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 653_Unidentified_man_about_1851 |
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