Daguerreotype portrait of an elderly man in dark coat – Historic Photograph Print
(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 Daguerreotype portrait of an elderly man in dark coat, 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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Daguerreotype portrait of an elderly man in dark coat
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Few surviving images from 1844 capture an ordinary sitter with such direct attention, and this portrait of an elderly man in a dark coat is a fine example of the early daguerreotype process. Daguerreotypes were made on silver-coated copper plates that were polished to a mirror finish and exposed in a camera for minutes at a time, so sitters had to hold still and often wore dark clothing that photographed well. The process was announced publicly in 1839 and quickly spread through studios in Europe and North America, where it made portraiture affordable for the middle class for the first time. Its unique, reflective surface is worth viewing at an angle, since the image shifts between positive and negative depending on the light.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,274 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 459_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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