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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat – Antique Photo Print

Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark coat and cravat, 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 cravat, 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 cravat

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Few sitters from the 1840s left a face this direct: the man here wears a dark coat and a loosely knotted cravat, and he meets the lens without the stiff theatrical pose many early portraits adopted. The picture dates to 1844, only a few years after Louis Daguerre publicized his process in 1839, when exposures still ran from several seconds to minutes and sitters were told to hold very still. Daguerreotypes are unique positives on silvered copper, so their tonal range shifts with the angle of light, and this one rewards a slow look as the image moves from silver to shadow.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,296 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference462_Unidentified_man_headan_1844

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