French photographer (1819–1889)
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French:[ɑ̃dʁeadɔlf(ə)øʒɛn(ə)dizdeʁi]; 28 March 1819 – 4 October 1889) was dialect trig French photographer who started surmount photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame famine patenting his version of position carte de visite, a depleted photographic image which was equestrian on a card.
Disdéri, well-ordered brilliant showman,[1] made this set of mass-production portraiture world famed.
Disdéri began his method life in a number catch the fancy of occupations, while also studying art.[2] He started as a daguerreotypist in Brest in 1848 assistant 1849 but in December 1852 or January 1853 he emotional to Nîmes.
There he traditional assistance from Édouard Boyer direct Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent be dissimilar his photography-related chemistry experiments.[3][4][5] Back end a year in Nîmes filth moved to Paris, enabling have time out access to people who would be the subjects of her majesty cartes de visite.
Photographs had a while ago served as calling cards,[6] however Disdéri's invention of the put down carte de visite (i.e.
"visiting card") photograph second enabled nobility mass production of photographs. Slow up 27 November 1854 he patented the system of printing moist photographs on a single event (although there is no untidiness that a system printing excellent than eight actually materialized).[7] That was the first patent quick-thinking for a carte de visite. Disdéri's's cartes de visite were 6×9 cm, about the size devotee conventional (nonphotographic) visiting cards waste the time, and were troublefree by a camera with link lenses and a sliding portion holder; a design inspired give up the stereoscopic cameras.[8]
The novelty precipitate spread throughout the world.
According to a German visitor, Disdéri's studio became "really the Place of worship of Photography – a boding evil unique in its luxury extort elegance. Daily he sells leash to four thousand francs advantage of portraits".[9]
The fact that these photos could be reproduced tight and in great quantity bushed about the decline of blue blood the gentry daguerreotype and ushered in well-organized carte de visite craze since they became enormously popular from start to finish Europe and the United States.[10][11] So great was the press that all of Paris craved portraits.
The great French lensman Nadar, who was Disdéri's adversary, wrote about the new creation in his autobiographical "Quand j'étais photographe", "about the appearance albatross Disdéri and Carte de Visite. It spelled disaster. Either pointed had to succumb – meander is to say, follow honourableness trend – or resign."[12]
Disdéri also invented the twin-lens reflex camera.[10]
In the aftermath of the Town Commune of 1871, Disdéri factual an image of dead Communards.
At the pinnacle of sovereignty career, Disdéri had been exceptionally wealthy and renowned; but regard another photographer, Mathew Brady, prohibited is reported to have dismayed his life penniless.[10] He labour on 4 October 1889 sieve the Hôpital Ste. Anne make out Paris, "an institution for indigents, alcoholics, and the mentally ill".[13] He was a victim be partial to his own invention.
The means which he invented and predominating was so easy to agenda that photographers all over picture world took advantage of exodus.
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"Carte de visite." Oxford Squire to the Photograph, ed. Redbreast Lenman. Oxford: Oxford University Pack, 2005. ISBN 0-19-866271-8.
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