André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, self-portrait

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (born March 28, 1819 in Paris ; † October 4, 1889 there ) was a French photographer and inventor .

Life

"The legs of the opera ", patented mosaic picture , around 1862

In 1854, Disdéri patented his so-called carte-de-visite process (business card portrait ), in which a series of eight portrait images could be captured on collodion negative material with the help of a multi-lens camera . This method soon became a success and superseded all older methods of commercial portrait photography.

In 1858 Disdéri invented the so-called mosaic picture , in which photos of different people or views are combined into one photo.

literature

  • In the chapter: Photography in the Second Empire (1851-1870) . In: Gisèle Freund : Photography and Society . Munich (German edition from * 1974; several editions and editions)

Web links

Commons : André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri biography in Encyclopedia Britannica
  2. ↑ Ludwig Hoerner (ed.), Franz Rudolf Zankl (collaborator): Hanover in early photographs 1848–1910, Munich: Schirmer-Mosel, 1979m ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 53.
personal data
SURNAME Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Disdéri, André-Adolphe Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French photographer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 1889
Place of death Paris