Bearded man in dark coat with shoulder strap, early portrait – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Bearded man in dark coat with shoulder strap, early portrait. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Bearded man in dark coat with shoulder strap, early portrait
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A man with a full beard and a dark coat, his shoulder strap visible, sits for one of the earliest kinds of photographic portrait. Daguerreotypes like this one were made on a silvered copper plate, and in 1844 they were still a novelty, since the process had only been announced publicly in 1839. Exposures could run for several minutes, so sitters were held still by head braces or simply by patience. The result is a single mirror-like image that changes with the angle of light, and its survival from the 1840s is a reminder of how fragile these early portraits can be.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,293 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 400_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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