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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, half-length – Antique Photo Print

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, half-length, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified 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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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, half-length

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Few early portraits survive with as much tonal detail as this half-length daguerreotype of an unidentified man, dated 1844. The process, announced publicly in France only five years earlier, produced a single mirror-like image on a silvered copper plate, so every example is one of a kind rather than a print from a negative. Sitters in the 1840s often had to hold still for several minutes in bright light, and the sharpness of the face against the softer background reflects that demanding technique. The man's identity has been lost, which is common for daguerreotypes, since the cases and plates were rarely labeled.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,275 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference418_Unidentified_man_halfle_1844

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