A New Book Celebrates the Carte de Visite
Since their debut in the mid-1850s, paper cartes de visite have been largely relegated by critics to a secondary status behind the earlier, commercially successful photographs on silver, glass, and
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The Assassin’s Vision
The cover sheet in the Library of Congress of composer Joseph W. Turner’s “The Assassin’s Vision” cites an illustration as his inspiration: “This ballad was suggested on seeing the representation