PHOTOGRAPHER

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

1819 - 1889

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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French: [ɑ̃dʁe adɔlf(ə) øʒɛn(ə) dizdeʁi]; 28 March 1819 – 4 October 1889) was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card. Disdéri, a brilliant showman, made this system of mass-production portraiture world famous. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri is the 56th most popular photographer (down from 48th in 2019), the 3,053rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,793rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ranks 56 out of 148Before him are Claude Cahun, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Gustav Klutsis, and Cecil Beaton. After him are Sean Flynn, Wilson Bentley, Nick Ut, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Grete Stern, and Hippolyte Bayard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ranks 54Before him are Pieter Bleeker, Gustave de Molinari, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Johann Voldemar Jannsen, Narcís Monturiol, and Tirimüjgan Kadın. After him are Vatroslav Lisinski, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Panteleimon Kulish, and Charles Kingsley. Among people deceased in 1889, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ranks 46Before him are Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Alfred Józef Potocki, Bernhard Förster, Charles Mackay, Ion Creangă, and John Hughes. After him are Champfleury, Albrecht Ritschl, Şihabetdin Märcani, Benedetto Cairoli, Ybyrai Altynsarin, and Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter.

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In France

Among people born in France, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ranks 3,053 out of 6,770Before him are Alain Bombard (1924), Albert Girard (1595), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Félix Gaillard (1919), Henri Helle (1873), and Émilie de Villeneuve (1811). After him are Henri Laurens (1885), Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Charles Percier (1764), Jean-Louis Forain (1852), Nasreddine Dinet (1861), and Pierre Vernier (1580).

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri ranks 10Before him are Robert Doisneau (1912), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), Sophie Calle (1953), Claude Cahun (1894), and Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894). After him are Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Patrick Demarchelier (1943), Marc Riboud (1923), Guy Bourdin (1928), Willy Ronis (1910), and Lucien Clergue (1934).