Daguerreotype portrait of a seated young man – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a seated young man in remarkable detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. It makes a striking addition to a living room, study or office, and a thoughtful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
Daguerreotype portrait of a seated young man
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Few details survive about the sitter of this 1855 daguerreotype, which shows a young man seated for the camera. What it does offer is a direct look at a process that was already fading from fashion by the mid-1850s. Daguerreotypes are unique positives made on a silvered copper plate, so each exposure produced one image with no negative to copy from. Sitters of this period often held very still for several seconds or longer, and the mirror-like surface means the picture only reads clearly when viewed at an angle. Its polished sheen and sharp detail reflect the careful craft that made this format popular in the 1840s and 1850s before paper-based photographs took over.
| Created / published | 1855 |
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| Original scan | 4,965 × 6,162 px · prints to 17 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 664_Unidentified_man_halfle_1855 |
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