Daguerreotype portrait of a man with wavy hair – Vintage Photo Print
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Daguerreotype portrait of a man with wavy hair comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 with wavy hair
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The record gives us a man with wavy hair, captured as a daguerreotype in 1844, which places the sitter in the first decade of commercial photography. Daguerreotypes were made on a silvered copper plate sensitized with iodine and developed over mercury vapor, so each one is a unique image that sits behind glass and shows a mirror-like sheen that shifts as the viewer moves. Exposures of several minutes were typical in the early 1840s, which meant sitters had to hold still with head braces or posing stands. Portraits like this one were prized for their sharp detail, and many survive today as the earliest direct record of ordinary people's faces.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 451_Unidentified_man_headan_1844 |
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