Guy Little Theatrical Photographs
1850
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Guy Little Theatrical Photographs is a 1850 photographic by Hayman Selig Mendelssohn, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a 19th-century photograph titled *Guy Little Theatrical Photographs* by Hayman Selig Mendelssohn. It’s a portrait meant for fans to collect. The print is an albumen photograph on card stock, a common format back then. Most actors paid for these studio photos to sell as calling cards. Collectors swapped them like trading cards. Big demand made them cheap and easy to find. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The albumen print photograph is one of many 19th-century theatrical portraits produced as cartes de visite or cabinet cards, small visiting-card-sized prints or larger, sturdier versions that gained popularity in the 1860s and 1870s before being replaced by postcards and studio portraits. It was part of a large collection of such photographs assembled by Guy Tristram Little, who removed them from their original card backings and mounted them in albums; the collection was later donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum. These prints were made from glass negatives and featured actors and…
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This guy snapped pictures of actors mid-performance when long exposures still made crowds look like ghosts.
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