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CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Untitled
  • (Case) The Tangent Circle
Date1855
MediumDaguerreotype
DimensionsImage (sight image): 2 9/16 × 2 1/8 in. (6.5 × 5.4 cm)
Frame (when closed): 3 11/16 × 3 3/16 × 5/8 in. (9.4 × 8.1 × 1.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, gift of Sonia and Kaye Marvins
Object number85.224
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
DescriptionThe long exposure times required by the daguerreotype plate were in part
because the chemicals used to sensitize the plate were very slow-acting by
today's standards. Therefore, poses were painfully stiff and formal, often
unsmiling. Young children are particularly difficult to photograph even in the
best of circumstances, and with exposure times running into numbers of minutes
rather than fractions of a second, fuzziness in the image resulting from a
child's impatience is inevitable.

ProvenanceSonia Marvins and Kaye Marvins, Houston; given to MFAH, 1985.
Exhibition History"Turning Light Into Silver", 19 February - 30 May 2005, Audrey Jones Beck Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, lower level.

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