Daguerreotype portrait of a man in a case – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a man in a case in remarkable detail. 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 a case
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Few objects capture the mid-19th century's fascination with preserving a face quite like a daguerreotype in its original case. Made in 1855, this portrait of a man is a unique positive image on a silvered copper plate, so it cannot be reproduced the way later paper photographs could. Daguerreotypes were the first commercially successful photographic process, introduced in France in 1839, and by the 1850s they were a common keepsake in American and European homes. Their mirror-like surfaces reward a tilt of the hand: the image shifts from a positive to a negative depending on the angle of light, and the protective case was meant to keep that delicate surface from tarnishing.
| Created / published | 1855 |
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| Original scan | 3,746 × 4,697 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 667_Unidentified_man_headan_1855 |
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