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Description: Exterior of a carte de visite studio

TitleExterior of a carte de visite studio

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1860

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen print from collodion-on-glass negative

DimensionsUnknown

LocationBibliothèque Nationale, Paris

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsCarte de visite photographsPhotography--studios and dark roomsPhotography--History--19th centuryCommercial photography

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2. The Business of Photography

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848–1871

~Although Maurisset’s 1840 caricature of Paris overrun with photographers and Daumier’s 1840s lithographs of intrepid operators gave the new entrepreneurs great visibility, the real growth of the profession occurred a decade later during the Second Empire. In the...

Author

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.47-102

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00182.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19723&redirecttoanchor=44649

Chapter subject tags:Photography--France--History--19th centuryPhotography--Technique--France--19th centuryDaguerreotype--France--History--19th centuryPhotography--Studios and dark rooms--France--19th centuryNadar, Félix, 1820-1910Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889

3. Celebrity Cartes: The “Galerie des contemporains” Series

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

A. A. E. Disdéri and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph

By 1860, the production and sale of photographic images had reached such magnitude in France that the industry was surveyed by the Paris Chambre de Commerce...

Author

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.53-84

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00004.007

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19523&redirecttoanchor=44649

Chapter subject tags:Carte de visite photographsPhotography--France--History--19th centuryDisdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889Caricatures and cartoons--France--19th centuryFashion prints, French

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