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Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, early photograph – Vintage Wall Art

Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, early photograph, 1844 — historic photograph
Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, early photograph, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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A window into the past: Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, early photograph, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Profile head-and-shoulders portrait of a man, early photograph

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A profile head-and-shoulders portrait from 1844 places its sitter squarely in the first years of photography's public life, when the daguerreotype was barely five years old. Early portraits like this one were made on a polished silver-coated copper plate, which gave an image of remarkable sharpness but no negative, so every picture was a unique object. Sitters of the period often had to hold still for minutes in bright light, and the side view was a deliberate choice that echoed the profile medallions and coins of earlier generations. The record does not name the man, so the picture is best read as a window onto how early photographers borrowed the conventions of classical portrait art.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,132 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference180_Edwin_Forrest_headandsh_1844

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