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Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar – Vintage Photo Print

Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar, 1844 — historic photograph
Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar, 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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Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Profile portrait of a man in dark coat and white collar

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A profile portrait from 1844 shows a man in a dark coat with a crisp white collar, rendered in the mirror-bright detail that daguerreotypes made possible. Announced in France in 1839, the daguerreotype was the first photographic process to reach the public, and by the mid-1840s portrait studios in Paris, London, and New York were turning out these one-of-a-kind silver-plated images in large numbers. Sitters often chose profile or three-quarter poses that echoed the cameo medallions and engraved portraits of the day. Because each daguerreotype is a single positive image on a polished metal plate, its surface can shift from positive to negative as the viewer tilts it, so the subject's face and collar are best seen at a slight angle.

Created / published1844
Original scan1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
Reference177_Edwards_Amasa_Park_half_1844

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