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Emile de Girardin
Creator
André Adolphe-Eugène DisdériFrench Photographer · 1819–1889
All works by this person →André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, former merchant, actor, and daguerreotypist, patented his invention, the *carte-de-visite* (visiting card) photograph, in 1854. At nine-by-six centimeters, *cartes* were primarily portraits, about the size of a conventional calling card and soon just as popular. Disdéri established his photographic practice with the manufacture of these tiny photographs; he divided a
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- 1862
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 1a872546-ad98-407f-b501-0865024a07df
Portrait of Émile de Girardin, standing with one hand in his jacket pocket, a pair of spectacles in the other.
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