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Public Domain

CultureAmerican

Titles

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(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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Photography

Special Collections

Marvins Family Collections

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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