Port militaire. Direction du port
Photograph
Port militaire. Direction du port
From the album Brest et ses environs
1856
Albumen silver print
Image: 7 5/16 × 10 11/16 in. (18.6 × 27.1 cm)
Mount: 15 1/4 × 19 13/16 in. (38.7 × 50.3 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1980.0256.0026
Inscriptions Inscribed on mount in ink (Cromer's hand), recto, BR: Port militaire, Direction du Port.
Inscribed on mount in pencil, recto, TL / TR: Port militaire. Direction du port / 26
Stamped in blue ink, verso, BL: 210
Inscribed on mount in pencil, recto, TL / TR: Port militaire. Direction du port / 26
Stamped in blue ink, verso, BL: 210
TextGeneviève-Elisabeth Disdéri operated her own photographic studios and initiated her own photographic projects—both rare opportunities for women in the nineteenth century. She is known for creating a group of photographs that documented landmarks in Brest, France, including this photograph of the city’s military port. In Brest, Geneviève-Elisabeth Disdéri first assisted her husband, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, with the production of daguerreotype portraits at his studio. After her husband fled the city for political reasons, she continued to run the studio. She created for her clients carte-de-visite portraits, a photographic format that her husband patented in 1854. In 1872, she moved to Paris and opened another studio that she ran until her death.
