[Paper Silhouette Portrait of a Woman], 1840s–50s, Daguerreotype, Image: 8.3 x 7 cm (3 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.), Photographs, Unknown (American), After T. P. Jones (American), Silhouettes and photographs share a similar origin in the cast shadow. Tracing a person's shadow created a silhouette portrait that served as an enduring reminder of a fleeting presence-an elegy based on the simple principles of light and dark-while fixing a shadow chemically resulted in some of the earliest known photographs, which were themselves silhouettes of leaves placed directly on sensitized paper
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