Cabinet format

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Wedding celebrations, cabinet card around 1885
Back of the cabinet card
Lapel from 1900 in black and gold print

With cabinet card , better known as Carte cabinet (abbreviation Cab), Cabinet format or Cabinet card , referred to a format of photographs of about 10 × 15 cm, which were glued on cardboard.

Procedure

The cabinet cards were albumen paper prints that were mounted on a cardboard box and were larger than the smaller business card portraits ( CdV ). Cabinet cards were usually studio portraits. The box itself was characteristically white until around 1880, with contemporary gold, blue or black decorations and photographer's stamp. Finally, the first colored cardboard surfaces appeared, usually in colors such as dark green / gold, brown / gold and white / gold.

format

The photograph was usually 100 mm (94 to 100 mm) wide and 145 mm (137 to 148 mm) high and was printed on cardboard 108 mm (104 to 110 mm) wide and 166 mm high (157 to 169 mm) mounted.

history

Since the 16th century, a small-format portrait with which chambers of curiosities (cabinets) were decorated has been known as cabinet format .

The photographic cabinet format was first used in 1862 by the photographers George Wharton Simpson (1825–1880) and George Washington Wilson (1823–1893) for landscape shots; it spread, coming from England and through use by the London photographer Frederick Richard Window, from 1866 also for portraits . After the First World War , the Carte Cabinet disappeared completely from the offer, as the stability of the photo paper made the cardboard or cardboard supports superfluous.

Web links

Commons : Cabinet format  - collection of images

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Josef Marie Eder (Ed.): Yearbook for Photography and Reproduction Technology for the year 1889 , 3rd year, Wilhelm Knapp, Halle / S., P. 74.
  2. ^ David Simkin: The Cabinet Format . On June 4, 2003 from spartacus-educational.com; Retrieved March 4, 2018