Daguerreotype portrait of a man with spectacles and high collar – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Daguerreotype portrait of a man with spectacles and high collar 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 with spectacles and high collar
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Few early portraits show their sitter as plainly as this one: a man in spectacles and a stiff high collar, caught in the sharp, mirror-like silver of a daguerreotype made in 1844. That was only a few years after Louis Daguerre's process was announced in 1839, when exposures still took several minutes and sitters had to hold very still, which explains much of the composure in the face. The daguerreotype was a one-of-a-kind image on a polished copper plate with a silver surface, so it reflects light differently from a paper print and changes as you tilt it. Its tight, formal framing and dark clothing are typical of the period's studio portraits, when photography was still new enough to feel like a near-magical record of a real face.
| Created / published | 1844 |
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| Original scan | 3,299 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 306_Samuel_G_Goodrich_heada_1844 |
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