Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography

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Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern PhotographyCabinet cards were Americas main format for photographic portraiture throughout the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Standardized at 6 x 4 inches, they were just large enough to reveal extensive detail, leading to the incorporation of elaborate poses, backdrops, and props. Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, they transformed getting ones portrait made from a formal event taken up once or twice in a lifetime into a commonplace practice shared

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