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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length – Historic Photograph Print

Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a bearded man, half-length

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The record gives us a half-length portrait of a bearded man, made as a daguerreotype in 1844, which places it within the first decade of photography's public life. Daguerreotypes were positive images fixed on a silvered copper plate, so each one is a single unique object rather than a print that could be run off from a negative. Sitters in this period often had to hold still for well over a minute in bright light, which makes the calm, steady expression typical of the era. Portraits like this one were among the earliest ways ordinary people could own a likeness of themselves, and the mirror-like surface means the image shifts with the viewer's angle.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,191 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference420_Unidentified_man_halfle_1844

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