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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie – Historic Photo Reproduction

Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie, 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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A window into the past: Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie, 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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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and bow tie

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Few details survive about the sitter of this daguerreotype, so the picture rests mostly on its materials and its moment. Made in 1844, it is a direct positive on a silver-coated copper plate, which means the image is unique, with no negative to print from more copies. The process had been announced in France only about five years earlier, and portraits like this required sitters to hold still for several minutes in strong light. Notice the sharp detail of the dark coat and bow tie, and the mirror-like surface that shifts from image to reflection as you tilt it.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference438_Unidentified_man_headan_1844

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