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Unidentified man, half-length daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Wall Art

Unidentified man, half-length daguerreotype portrait, 1844 — historic photograph
Unidentified man, half-length daguerreotype portrait, 1844. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography collection.

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This rare historic photograph captures Unidentified man, half-length daguerreotype portrait in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Unidentified man, half-length daguerreotype portrait

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A half-length daguerreotype from 1844 puts us at the very start of photographic portraiture, only a few years after Louis Daguerre's process was made public in 1839. The sitter's name has been lost, so the picture survives as a record of a face rather than a biography. Exposures then ran from several seconds to a minute or more, which is why sitters held still with head rests and tight expressions. Each daguerreotype is a single, mirror-like image on a silver-coated copper plate, so its appearance shifts with the angle of light and it cannot be reproduced without a new sitting.

Created / published1844
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
Reference421_Unidentified_man_halfle_1844

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