Carte de visite Essays

  • Cartes de Visite

    1958 Words  | 4 Pages

    Cartes de visite are small, commonly albumen, prints average size 2.5” x 4” usually mounted onto cardstock. Cartes de visite became wildly popular in the late 1850s and continued to be made for decades after. Although originated in the Europe, cartes de visites became prevalent in several countries around the world. “The format was an international standard; for the first time, relatives and friends could exchange portraits, knowing they would find a place in the recipient's family album--whether

  • Daguerreotype-Mania

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    The basis of photography began centuries before the medim was invented. People enjoyed both art and the immediate viewing of places and figures around them. Whether these were paintings, sculptures or even sketches, the introduction of art gave people a lens in order to view both the world around them and anything in their own imagination. Photography, when it emerged in the 18th century as a medium was intended for pictures of everyday life, both portraits and documentation that we existed. This

  • la voyage dans nikolski

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    Écrit par Nicolas Dickner, le roman Nikolski est une histoire de trois étrangers inconsciemment liées qui tentent de comprendre leurs identités basées sur des fragments de l'histoire de la famille et de la légende. Bien que Nikolski ait de nombreux thèmes, le voyage est un thème le plus important abordé dans le roman, marquant un changement entre les générations. Il est pertinent donc d’examiner la question suivante : est-ce que Nicolas Dickner présente le voyage sous un jour positif dans son roman

  • Le Monde des Jeunes - French Essay

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    Monde des Jeunes - French Paper Pour celebrer notre centieme anniversaire on fera un reportage especial, dans lequel on va faire une comparaison entre Londre et Paris. !!!Londres contre Paris!!! Mon experience personelle de Paris etait un peu limitee donc j'y ai visite seulemont une fois. Mais je connais Londre comme mes poches. Le deux sont des villes tres anciennes avec beaucoup de monuments historiques. Paris a ete fonde au temps des Celtes, et Londres a ete fonde au temps des Romains

  • How Photography Helped Change People's Opinions of The Civil War

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    Through some author’s point of view which usually contained useless bias, people were able to look at photographs and criticize the written propaganda about the good outcomes of comes, since most of the photographs depicted death and destruction. Furthermore, Matthew Brady’s opening of the civil war photo gallery in New York City in 1862 gave more and more people the access to experience war through realistic photographs which changed many people’s perception of the war. Over 1000 pictures and

  • La Colonialisme et la Religion

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    relation authentique est un melange de violence et d’hypocrisie; le reste n'est que mascarade. le colonialisme était quelque chose beaucoup plus sombre, plus sinister. Dans Une vie de boy, Toundi, Un jeune Noir élevé par un Père Blanc a pris, l'habitude de tenir un journal. Dans le journal, il enregistre tout ce qui se passe dans le milieu des colons où, malgré lui, à la mort du Père Blanc, il est devenu le boy de l'administrateur des colonies, le "commandant" de l'endroit. Rien ne lui échappe.

  • Mouring in the Victorian Era

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    Mouring in the Victorian Era The actions of Victorians upon a death is a intricate web of rituals and etiquette. In Vanity Fair, William Thackeray gives modern readers a brief glimpse into deep mourning through Amelia Sedley-Osborne. The idea of deep mourning was introduced by Queen Victoria upon the death of her husband, King Albert, who died of typhoid in 1861. At that time and for forty years after(the time of her death), the Queen mourned the loss of her beloved husband. She commanded her

  • How Photography Began

    1800 Words  | 4 Pages

    photographic process became public. (*1) The word is derived from the Greek words for light and writing. Before mentioning the stages that led to the development of photography, there is one amazing, quite uncanny prediction made by a man called de la Roche (1729- 1774) in a work called Giphantie. In this imaginary tale, it was possible to capture images from nature, on a canvas which had been coated with a sticky substance. This surface, so the tale goes, would not only provide a mirror image

  • Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America Analysis

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    Helga and Clara had a mother-daughter portrait taken in Spokane that was made into “carte de visite” prints that they planned to sell as souvenirs. They also carried calling cards and $5.00 cash. Helga and Clara were in long gray dresses and high boots. They would change clothes in Salt Lake City and wear a new short bicycle riding skirts

  • Essay On William Notman

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    Photographer to the Queen: Subtitle Admittedly, every artist carries the potential to influence the art community and the artistic styles of the medium in which he or she practices. Specifically, all of the Canadian artists of Canada’s art history have had a large influence on what is seen as the distinct Canadian art. One such artist is William Notman, founder and owner of the William Notman Photographic Studio in Montreal, Quebec, which opened in 1856 and serviced until 1935 when his son sold

  • Queen Alexandra Analysis

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    The motivation for this study was trying to establish a different view on Queen Alexandra through the examination of her wardrobe and tailer made garments. Using clothing as a source to add a deeper understanding to her known biographical facts, and potentially find out new facets of her life. Research question: As it has not been done before, what new biographical facts can we uncover about Queen Alexandra through the details of her style and wardrobe. The time period covered in this study was

  • Photographers of the Old West

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    Photographers of the Old West In a society that is focused on visual stimuli, it isn't uncommon to see a person taking a picture with a camera or making a "movie" with their camcorder. But, in the 1840s and 1850s, life just wasn't like that. If someone said they could make a picture of a mining town or of the route to the West without a pencil or paint people would have laughed at them. Laughing would have been appropriate because photography didn't come into being until 1839. James Horan reveals