Costumes V
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
1863–67
Medium
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives
Classification
Photographs|Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Museum Accession, transferred from the Costume Institute Library
Accession Number
2011.531.1–.164
Tags
MenPortraitsWomen
About the Artist
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri · 1819–1889
**André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri** (1819–1889) was a pioneering French photographer whose innovations transformed portraiture into a mass medium during the Second Empire. Born on March 28, 1819, in Paris, Disdéri pursued diverse careers in commerce, acting, and politics early on, while studying art amid personal hardships following his father's death, which compelled him to support his mother, sibli...