[Portrait of a Man]

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[Portrait of a Man]

Creator

Hippolyte Bayard

French Photographer · 1801–1887

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Frenchman Hippolyte Bayard was one of the earliest experimenters in photography, though few will recognize his name today. While working as a civil servant in the Ministry of Finance in the late 1830s and early 1840s, he devoted much of his free time to inventing processes that captured and fixed images from nature on paper using a basic camera, chemicals, and light. The announcement of the invent

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Date
about 1845–1847
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
744801fa-63be-4912-973c-c2285d2871ac

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Portrait of a bearded man seated in front of a cloth backdrop. He is wearing a striped vest and has one arm resting on the back of his chair.

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