Posted on 05/07/2009 8:39:35 AM PDT by re_tail20
In 1987, Albert Kaplan, who was then living in Paris, sought the opinion of Dr. Claude N. Frechette, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at the American Hospital in Paris, to examine a daguerreotype Kaplan believed was the first known photographic image ever made of the youthful future-president Abraham Lincoln.
As WND reported, Kaplan purchased the daguerreotype in 1977 from a group of 100 being sold by an art gallery on 57th Street in New York City. The sales receipt described the daguerreotype simply as "Portrait of a Young Man."
Frechette presented his findings in a 13-page footnoted forensic report entitled "The Kaplan Daguerreotype of Abraham Lincoln." It has been archived on a website Kaplan created for research materials on Lincoln and the daguerreotypes that he has collected over the past three decades.
"The evidence speaks for itself," Frechette concluded after an extensive analysis. "The nature and substantial number of identical characteristics of the man in the Kaplan daguerreotype, and those of Lincoln, tell us profoundly that the young man in the Kaplan daguerreotype is Abraham Lincoln."
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Correct. Not Lincoln. Note where the lines cross the ears, at a different point in each one. Ear shape doesn’t change or rise or fall through life.
As I recall, daugerreotypes were VERY fragile, but those that were properly preserved over the years display a remarkable clarity. They were produced on glass plates, and the image had to be immediately preserved (the image showed on the back of the glass).
If you can find it, check out “The Daugerreotype in America” by Beaumont Newell. I found the book at the Old Fort Tejon gift shop in Fort Tejon, in CA. I really got a heck of an education from that one. I had an olt-time photo shop a few years back, and I was studying the poses and lighting techniques. Fun!
BTW, I can’t comment on the mole... :-) (Although it looks a little high to me. Maybe there were more than one — I dunno.)
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