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Unknown Artist — Boy with Cigar

Unknown Artist

Boy with Cigar

1855

Provocative for its time, this tinted daguerreotype of a young smoker reflects changing attitudes toward childhood and the documentary power of the camera to capture social realities.

Medium
daguerreotype, tinted, sixth plate

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Unknown Artist, Boy with Cigar, 1855

Provocative for its time, this tinted daguerreotype of a young smoker reflects changing attitudes toward childhood and the documentary power of the camera to capture social realities.

Medium
daguerreotype, tinted, sixth plate
Year
1855
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Tinted, American, Photograph, Historical, Portrait, Boy, Sepia Tones, Figurative, Daguerreotype

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago