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Daguerreotype portrait of a man, head and shoulders – Historic Photograph Print

Daguerreotype portrait of a man, head and shoulders, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a man, head and shoulders, 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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This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a man, head and shoulders in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a man, head and shoulders

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Few sitters from the 1840s left a record as specific as this one, though the surviving details are modest: a head-and-shoulders study of an unnamed man, made in 1844. Daguerreotypes like this were produced on a silvered copper plate, which gave a mirror-bright surface that had to be tilted to catch the light and seen at the right angle to reveal the image. Exposures in that period often ran several minutes, so sitters were typically asked to hold still with the help of head braces. The format was then newly popular, and portraits of this kind mark the earliest years when ordinary people could afford a lasting likeness of themselves.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,186 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference181_Edwin_Forrest_headandsh_1844

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