Unidentified man in vest and bow tie, daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Photo Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Unidentified man in vest and bow tie, daguerreotype portrait. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Unidentified man in vest and bow tie, daguerreotype portrait
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A man in a waistcoat and bow tie sits for this portrait, the kind of formal dress that marked a respectable sitter in the 1840s. The daguerreotype process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a silvered copper plate, so each portrait was one-of-a-kind and could not be copied the way later prints could. Exposures took many seconds to minutes, which is why sitters were often held still with head braces and kept a fixed, serious expression. The sitter's name has not survived with the record, but the image preserves how ordinary people presented themselves to the camera in the decade after photography first appeared.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 376_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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