Old Photographs - Sub carte-de-visite size portraits

Towards the end of the 19th Century, as competition forced down prices between professional photographers, so some looked for new markets and for new products beyond the well-known carte de visite, cabinet and postcard formats. Some found a way ahead by introducing "cheap work" developing smaller, less expensive portrait formats, using fewer materials, and marketed these, sometimes as novelties, to those who hitherto may not have been able to afford more traditional photographic products. Some photographers shifted primarily to these products, while others added them to their existing offerings. So we find from around the 1890s to perhaps the 1920s a variety of different offerings and formats of tiny portraits, some with different names, no standard nomenclature, a whole body of work which photo historians have not yet named or considered as a genre. These might be loosely described as a “sub carte-de-visite size formats”. A few of the formats produced did, and still do, have names, and we will first list these before going on to discuss the important un-named remainder - the stickyback..

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Links to Stickybacks and related pages on our other site: www.stickybacks.uk:

• Sub carte de visite size photographs
• Stickyback Photographs
• Stamp photographs
• Stickyback Photographers in England part 1 and part 2
• Stickyback Photographers in Ireland
• Stickyback Photographers in Scotland
• Stickyback Photographers in Wales
• Stickyback photographers in the rest of the world.
• Stickyback photographers, location not currently known
• Stickyback photographers by name
• Spiridione Nicolo Grossi, his family and his businesses
• Photo booths