Cartomania: Photography and Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

by Paul Frecker

Cartomania was a photographic phenomenon that seized the public imagination at the beginning of the 1860s. Small portraits, dubbed cartes de visite, were avidly exchanged with friends and family, quickly earning a reputation as 'the paper currency of social intercourse'. Compiled into albums and prominently displayed in the home to peruse, assess and discuss, this first explosion of commercial portraiture proved a wildly popular craze, particularly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1914613627
• ISBN13: 9781914613623
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: September Publishing
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.7" x 10.0"