Mathew Brady

Title:  Elkhorn chair presented by Seth Kinman to President Lincoln

Artist:  Photo by Mathew Brady

Medium:  Carte de visite

Year:  1864

This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of no more than the life of the author plus 100 years.

 

Give a brief description of the movement, photographer, or term you researched. How are they significant to the history of photography (50-75 words)?

 

Carte de visite:

Carte de visite is a type of small photograph usually made of an albumen print, which was a thin paper photograph mounted on a thicker paper card. The size of a carte de visite is 2? × 3½ inches mounted on a card sized 2½ × 4 inches.  It was patented in Paris, France by photographer André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri in 1854.  It was made popular in 1859 in Europe, and 1860 in the United States. The new invention was so popular it was known as "cardomania" and eventually spread throughout the world.

 

 

 

Write a short personal reaction to the movement, photographer or term you researched. What is interesting or not interesting about the work (50 – 75 words).

 

The carte de visite popularized photography by giving it an immensely growing market to the general public.  It led to many ways to use photographs including religious figures,  important people, burial cards, and even baseball cards.  There are many collections of these today, many from the civil war.

 

 

 

Name (please only include if it is ok to publish on blog):  Joe Ulwelling

 

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