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"description": "Andr\u00e9 Adolphe-Eug\u00e8ne Disd\u00e9ri is best known for his development in Paris in 1854 of the carte-de-visite format for portraits. The year before, he was living in Southern France where he made this rural view. Disderi used waxed-paper negatives for only a short time. The oval cropping and picturesque scene\u2014posed but seemingly spontaneous\u2014suggest that this is meant to be an artistic, rather than a documentary, photograph.",
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"biography": "Andr\u00e9-Adolphe-Eug\u00e8ne Disd\u00e9ri French, 1819-1889 Disd\u00e9ri is best known as a portraitist and popularizer of the carte-de-visite. He spent 10 years as a painter and working in the theater, and another five in the clothing business, before becoming seriously interested in photography around age 30. He first operated studios in Brest and N\u00eemes, then moved to Paris and opened a studio in 1854, and a second in 1863. In 1854 Disd\u00e9ri patented the carte-de-visite, a method of producing a number of small images on a single negative that achieved great popularity. He later opened additional studios in London, Madrid, and Toulon. Disd\u00e9ri was one of the best known portrait photographers of his day, with many important commissions and sitters. Like Mathew Brady, he was an innovator and entrepreneur as well as an artist. The carte-de-visite, which he did not invent, but rather adapted, helped photography to become increasingly versatile as a medium and available to people of all means. In 1879 Disd\u00e9ri sold his business and moved to Nice. Despite his success, he died 10 years later in Paris in poverty, obscurity, and poor health. T.W.F.",
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