Self-Portrait

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Self-Portrait

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard

Swiss Daguerreotypist · 1775–1863

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Jean-Gabriel Eynard was a wealthy amateur photographer who made photographs chiefly for his own amusement. He learned the daguerreotype process in Paris in the early 1840s, not long after the invention of the process was announced in 1839. His financial independence afforded him the time and ability to practice photography, which in its infancy was an expensive pastime and difficult to master. Ass

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Date: June 18, 1853
Medium: Daguerreotype
Culture: Swiss
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Although he was seventy-seven years old when this image was made, daguerreotypist Jean-Gabriel Eynard appears alert, his expression dignified. His splendid fur-collared overcoat and his immaculately starched shirt with its stiff, high collar are representative of Eynard's extensive--and expensive--wardrobe. His hair, brushed forward at the temples in the style of his youth in 1800, is curiously static despite its windblown appearance.

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