The Carte de Visite and Domestic Digital Photography

Photographies Volume 9 Issue 3 2016
DOI: 10.1080/17540763.2016.1202309

ABSTRACT

This article reconsiders the carte de visite through an awareness of twenty-first-century domestic digital photography. Employing recent scholarship, nineteenth-century commentary and a study of forty carte de visite albums, the article questions a widely held perception of carte de visite portraiture as privileging memory over the other social functions of domestic photography. This perspective on memory and the carte de visite is then used to interrogate the relationship of memory to twenty-first-century domestic digital photography.

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