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Nadar, Paris, Finette, 1860
 

Year: circa 1860

Albumen print, Business Card
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price :  SOLD

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Sarah Bernhardt, Gustave Courbet, Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Delacroix… They all posed in front of Nadar's lens! His real name Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), Nadar is undoubtedly the photographer of the celebrities of the 19th century. This brilliant visionary and experimenter marked the history of the image by becoming the first aerial photographer, but also the artist of sensitive photographic portraits, at a time of the almost industrial development of this new medium.

Disdéri, Paris, portrait Guy de Maupassant 

Cabinet Card
Year: Circa 1880
Photography :  albumen print
Format (cm): 10 x 14 cm at sight

Price: 150 €


Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant is a French writer and literary journalist born August 5, 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil in Tourville-sur-Arques and died July 6, 1893 in Paris.

Disdéri opened in Paris in 1848,  at 8, boulevard des Italiens, the largest photography studio in the capital. In November of the same year, he filed a patent for a new type of portrait, which he called "visiting card". It is a portrait of reduced format (6 cm × 9 cm), the portrait-map, obtained by means of a special chamber equipped with four or six lenses. This chamber makes it possible to obtain, in a single pose, four or six identical portraits of the same model.

Creamer, Paris, Théophile Gautier, 1865

Year: Circa 1865-1970

Albumen print
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price :  € 120

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Léon Crémière, born February 7, 1831 in Paris and died April 2, 1913 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French photographer. He makes many portraits of soldiers, and photographs of animals.

 

Assistant to Disderi, Léon Crémière created his own studio in Paris in 1862, specializing in photographs of hunting dogs and horseback riding.

Based at 28, rue Laval in Paris, he became publisher and photographer of the house of Emperor Napoleon III in 1866.

He uses the literary pseudonym of Lazarus.

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Pierre Petit, Paris, Victor Hugo, 1861

Year: Circa 1861

Albumen print business card
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price: 210 €

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Pierre Petit, born August 15, 1831 in Aups (Var1) and died February 16, 1909 in Paris, is a  French photographer.  Pierre Lanith Petit learns photographic technique with Eugène Disdéri, the inventor of the business card photo. He is nicknamed "Collodion the Hairy".

In 1859, he began an ambitious project for the Galerie des hommes du jour, made up of portraits accompanied by biographical descriptions of personalities at the center of current events in shows, culture and political life. This work launches its notoriety.

From 1871 to 1884, he was commissioned by the State to follow the construction work of the Statue of Liberty in the Parisian studio of Auguste Bartholdi before his expedition to New York.

He was named Knight of the Legion of Honor on July 23, 1881.

Nadar, Paris, Emile Augier,
French poet and playwright, 1870

Year: Circa 1870

Albumen print, Business Card
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price :  90 €

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Sarah Bernhardt, Gustave Courbet, Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Delacroix… They all posed in front of Nadar's lens! His real name Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), Nadar is undoubtedly the photographer of the celebrities of the 19th century. This brilliant visionary and experimenter marked the history of the image by becoming the first aerial photographer, but also the artist of sensitive photographic portraits, at a time of the almost industrial development of this new medium.

Nadar, Paris, Georges Sand, 1864

Year: 1864

Albumen print, Business Card
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price :  SOLD

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Sarah Bernhardt, Gustave Courbet, Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Delacroix… They all posed in front of Nadar's lens! His real name Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), Nadar is undoubtedly the photographer of the celebrities of the 19th century. This brilliant visionary and experimenter marked the history of the image by becoming the first aerial photographer, but also the artist of sensitive photographic portraits, at a time of the almost industrial development of this new medium.

Carjat, Paris, Emile Auguste Nélaton,

French physician and surgeon, 1865

Year: Circa 1865

Albumen print, Business Card
Format (cm): 6.5x10.5
Price :  € 120

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Étienne Carjat, born in Fareins (Ain) on March 28, 1828 and died in Paris (10th arrondissement) on March 8, 1906, is a French photographer, journalist, caricaturist and poet.

 

He learned the trade from Pierre Petit and set up his first workshop at number 56 rue Laffitte in Paris Halfway from Baudelaire, with Nadar, he was the main photographer of characters for the arts, politics and entertainment between 1860 and 1890.

 

One of his most famous photographs is a portrait of Arthur Rimbaud, taken in October 1871.

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