About this artwork
In 1854 the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduced a method for producing multiple images on a single glass-plate negative. He also produced more portable studio portrait format: the carte-de-visite, which consists of a small portrait mounted on rigid paper stock about the size of a business card. The uncut contact sheet displayed here features eight different views of a single sitter. It comes from a reference album that Disdéri kept in his studio for reprint requests. The irreversible discolor-ation along the edges of the print was caused primarily by humidity, which penetrated the pages of the closed album over the years.
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Currently Off View
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
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Title
- Napoléon Coste
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Origin
- France
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Date
- Made 1859
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Medium
- Albumen print
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Dimensions
- 20 × 23.3 cm (image/paper)
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Credit Line
- Restricted gift of Helen Harvey Mills in honor of Katherine Bussard
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Reference Number
- 2006.314
Extended information about this artwork
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