Given the proliferation of pictures of people in circulation today, it is no surprise that portraiture and self-portraiture have been among the most common forms of photography throughout the medium’s history. In the mid-nineteenth century people collected and exchanged cartes de visite, small images mounted on board, as calling cards. This is an example of an uncut sheet of images by Disdéri, who patented cartes de visite and the method of making eight negatives on a single plate, showing the subject in a variety of poses
Seeing Through Photographs online course, Coursera, 2016
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Cartes-de-visite
Small photographs mounted to cardstock, patented in 1854. These “visiting” cards, most often featuring individual or celebrity portraits, were popularly traded and collected in albums.
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