Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat – Historic Photo Reproduction
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Daguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man in a dark coat
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A sitter whose name has been lost is what sets this daguerreotype apart from the many portraits of notable figures from the 1840s. The man wears a dark coat, and the plate's mirror-like surface makes him appear to float in silver, a quality that comes from the process itself rather than from any deliberate staging. Daguerreotypes were made on a copper plate sensitized with silver iodide and developed over mercury vapor, and by 1844 studio portraits of this kind had become popular across Europe and the United States. Exposures often ran several minutes, so sitters had to hold still, which explains the formal, serious expressions common to the period.
| Created / published | 1844 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 364_Unidentified_man_about_1844 |
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