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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark suit and bow tie – Vintage Wall Art

Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark suit and bow tie, 1844 — historic photograph
Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark suit and bow tie, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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Daguerreotype portrait of a man in dark suit and bow tie

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Few surviving daguerreotypes from 1844 show a sitter in a bow tie, which makes this one a useful glimpse of how men dressed for their portraits in the mid-1840s. The daguerreotype process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single mirror-like image on a silvered copper plate, so every portrait was one-of-a-kind and had to be viewed at an angle to show the image rather than the reflection. Sitters often had to hold still for several seconds or longer in bright light, which is why formal, stern expressions were so common. The dark suit and tie reflect the somber, tailored fashions of the period, and the plate's fine detail still rewards close looking.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,297 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference463_Unidentified_man_headan_1844

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