Title: A.A.E. Disdéri and the carte de visite portrait photograph /
Authors: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne; Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène,
Date: 1985
Publisher: Yale University Press,
Physical description: xvi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: T
Contents: The making of a photographer -- The carte de visite and the search for markets -- Celebrity cartes : the "Galerie des contemporains" series -- The demi-monde revealed : cartes of actors and actresses, dancers, and "filles de joie" -- Family and group carte portraits -- The carte de visite and portrait painting during the Second Empire -- Disdéri's late career and the demise of the carte de visite -- Reflections on the carte de visite.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Biographies; Carte de visite photographs.; Disdéri, A. A. E., 1819-1889.; Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène, 1819-1889.; Photographers--France--Biography.