A.A.E. Disdéri and the carte de visite portrait photograph /

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Author / Creator:	McCauley, Elizabeth Anne, author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1985]
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 262 pages) : 204 illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Yale publications in the history of art ; 31 Yale publications in the history of art ; 31.
Subject:	Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, -- 1819-1889. Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, -- 1819-1889. Portrait photographers. Portrait photographers -- France -- Biography. Photographers -- France -- Biography. Carte de visite photographs. Carte de visite photographs. Photographers. France. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12524974

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Varying Form of Title:	A. A. E. Disdéri and the carte de visite portrait photograph
ISBN:	9780300253337 0300253338 0300031696 9780300031690
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-258) and index. Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on February 7, 2020).
Summary:	"The carte becomes a unique means for McCauley to examine the social and cultural life of the mid-nineteenth-century French middle class - their morals and manners, fashions and obsessions. McCauley finds that the cartes became a great equalizer, allowing bourgeois Parisians to examine, and, in effect to bring into their living rooms, the famous politicians, actors, dance-hall girls, and writers in the photographs. The carte also gave the bourgeoisie the opportunity to dress in their Sunday best and record their own lineage, just as the well-to-do had done for centuries in painted portraits. McCauley shows that the proliferation of the carte had a marked effect not only on society but also on portrait painting, especially on the styles and compositions of young artists such as Manet, Degas, Monet, and Renoir"--Page 2 of cover.
Other form:	Print version: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne. A.A.E. Disdéri and the carte de visite portrait photograph. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1985 0300031696

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