Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark suit – Vintage Photo Print
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark suit 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.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in dark suit
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A quarter-plate daguerreotype from 1844 shows a man in a dark suit, though his name has been lost to history. The process was barely five years old when this was made, and each daguerreotype was a single, unreproducible silver-coated copper plate, so the sitter was looking at a mirror-like image that changed brightness as the viewer tilted it. Portraits from this period required sitters to hold still for several minutes in bright light, which is why faces often appear composed and serious. Early daguerreotypes like this one show how quickly photography moved from novelty to a common way of recording ordinary people.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,299 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 392_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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