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

Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, bust length, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, bust 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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Step back in time with Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, bust length, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man, bust length

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The sitter here is unnamed, so the picture rests on its materials and moment rather than on a known life. Made in 1844, it is a daguerreotype, the process Louis Daguerre announced in Paris in 1839 and that became the first widely practiced form of photography. Each plate was a single, mirror-like image on polished silver-coated copper, viewed at an angle so that the man's face seems to appear and shift as the light changes. Exposures then took minutes, which required sitters to hold still, and that stillness gives many early portraits their grave, composed look.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,330 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference384_Unidentified_man_about_1844

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