Seated older man in dark suit, daguerreotype portrait – Antique Photo Print
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This rare historic photograph captures Seated older man in dark suit, daguerreotype portrait in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Seated older man in dark suit, daguerreotype portrait
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A seated older man in a dark suit, captured in a daguerreotype dated 1844, places this plate among the earliest attempts to fix a human likeness on a silvered copper surface. The sitter is unnamed in the record, so the portrait speaks through posture, clothing and the mirror-like sheen of the plate itself. Daguerreotypes of this period required exposures of several minutes in bright light, which asked the sitter to hold still and produced a sharp, detailed image that can only be seen fully at certain angles. Worth noticing is how the plate reflects the viewer's own face as the image shifts, a quality that distinguished daguerreotypes from paper prints of the same decade.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,270 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 481_Unidentified_man_threeq_1844 |
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