Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, daguerreotype – Historic Photograph Print
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Step back in time with Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, daguerreotype, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Portrait of an unidentified elderly man, daguerreotype
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Few early portraits capture the sitter's character as directly as this one, and the unidentified man here has been left to us without a name, his face and bearing doing all the talking. Made in 1844, the image is a daguerreotype, a process announced in France only five years earlier, which fixed a picture directly onto a silvered copper plate. Its mirror-like surface and sharp detail were among the features that astonished viewers of the time, and portraits from these first years of photography are prized today as some of the earliest records of ordinary people's faces.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,262 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 406_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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