Unidentified man about – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Unidentified man about. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Unidentified man about
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An unidentified man, sitting for a daguerreotype in 1844, is one of the earliest kinds of portrait a camera could make. The process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a polished silver-coated copper plate, so each picture was one of a kind and could not be duplicated. Exposures then ran from several seconds to minutes in strong light, which required sitters to hold still with the help of head braces. Because the sitter's name went unrecorded, the picture now speaks mainly through its clothing, pose and the quiet, mirror-like sheen of the plate itself.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,313 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 356_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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