Bearded man in dark coat, studio portrait photograph – Antique Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bearded man in dark coat, studio portrait photograph 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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Bearded man in dark coat, studio portrait photograph
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A bearded man in a dark coat sits for this portrait, one of the many studio sittings that made the daguerreotype a popular form of likeness in the early 1840s. The process, announced in France in 1839, produced a single positive image on a silvered copper plate, so each portrait was a unique object rather than a print that could be copied. Sitters of this period often had to hold still for several minutes, which is why faces in such pictures can look serious or fixed. Because the record names no sitter, the picture is best read as a window onto everyday middle-class portraiture, when a mirror-bright image on metal was a new and striking way to preserve a face.
| Created / published | 1840 |
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| Original scan | 1,155 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 476_Unidentified_man_possib_1840 |
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