Two women seated in a daguerreotype portrait – Vintage Photo Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: Two women seated in a daguerreotype portrait, preserved in this historic photograph. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Two women seated in a daguerreotype portrait
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Two women sit side by side in this 1851 daguerreotype, a process that fixed an image directly onto a silver-plated copper sheet and produced a single, mirror-like original with no negative. Exposures in this period often ran for several seconds or longer, so sitters were typically held still by a head brace or a posed stillness that gives these portraits their formal, unsmiling air. Daguerreotypes were among the first commercially popular photographs, and by the early 1850s studios across the United States and Europe were turning them out in great numbers. Look closely at the surface: the image shifts from positive to negative depending on the angle of light, a quirk of the medium that many viewers find striking.
| Created / published | 1851 |
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| Original scan | 3,257 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 633_Two_unidentified_women_1851 |
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