ISBN9780300275087_f0200-02

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Description: Beresford from Demi Monde I 56

TitleBeresford from Demi Monde I 56

Creator nameDisdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1867

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsAlbumen silver print from glass negative

LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/286628

Accession number2005.100.588.2.54

SubjectsPhotography--History--19th centuryWomen--PortraitsClothing and dress--France--History--19th century

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Chapter 10: Photography, Fashion, and the Cult of Appearances

Elizabeth Anne McCauley

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

A few months after the French photographer Félix Nadar opened a newly enlarged, ambitious studio at 35, boulevard des Capucines in 1861, he staged a celebratory photograph of the facade of his business (fig. 1). While showcasing staff members gathered on the roof, fiacres parked along the curb, and an ostentatious gaslit sign applied across the two top...

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Elizabeth Anne McCauley

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.197-208

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356.17

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23666&redirecttoanchor=101596

Chapter subject tags:Clothing and dress--France--History--19th centuryPhotography--History--19th centuryCarte de visite photographsPortrait photography--FranceDisdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889

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