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Unknown maker — Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man with a Top Hat)

Unknown maker

Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man with a Top Hat)

1857

Representing the formal portraiture standards of the 1850s, this daguerreotype demonstrates how photography adopted and adapted the compositional conventions of painted portraiture.

Medium
Daguerreotype

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Unknown maker, Untitled (Portrait of a Standing Man with a Top Hat), 1857

Representing the formal portraiture standards of the 1850s, this daguerreotype demonstrates how photography adopted and adapted the compositional conventions of painted portraiture.

Medium
Daguerreotype
Year
1857
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, American, Photograph, Top Hat, Man, Portrait, Figurative, Daguerreotype, Formal

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