Portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Portrait of a bearded man in a dark jacket, 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 a bearded man in a dark jacket
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A bearded man in a dark jacket is the entire subject of this 1844 daguerreotype, and the record names no sitter, so the face is the only clue to who he was. That year sits just five years after Louis Daguerre publicized his process in 1839, when exposures still ran several minutes and subjects had to hold rigid poses without blinking. Portraits like this one were among the first things people paid to have made, and a daguerreotype's mirror-like silver surface makes the image shift with the angle of light. Its unusual sharpness reflects how the process captured fine detail, including the texture of beard and cloth.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,284 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 378_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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