Cleveland Museum of Art

Untitled (French Military Heroes and Political Leaders)

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Date

mid-1860s

Medium

albumen print, montage carte-de-visite

Culture

France

Department

Photography

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This montage of France’s military and other leaders is a mosaic carte, a form invented by Disdéri, produced by cutting photographs of hundreds of figures away from their backgrounds, mounting the likenesses on a single sheet, photographing that collage, and printing the result on 6 x 9 cm cards. These entertaining images sold well and were effective advertising for the photographer’s prowess.

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