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名刺判写真 / 1854–1900s / Style / Photography and Publishing
Disdéri's patented card-sized portrait: eight poses on one plate democratized portraiture, and celebrity cards and album culture created the shared face — the ancestor of the profile picture.
Card-sized mounts / Full-length studio poses / The studio's logo on the back / Album collecting
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- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Disdéri's patent / the celebrity card trade / the lineage to social avatars