People had still wanted portraits even when getting a portrait taken meant sitting in bright sunlight for several minutes with their eyes watering, and trying not to blink or move. People had then started their own portrait studios to have their likenesses drawn by “the sacred radiance of the Sun”

Small portraits called cartes-de-visite were very popular in the 1860s. Cartes-de-visite was taken by a camera that only exposed one of the photographic plates at a time, allowing the customers to strike different poses for the price of one. For Pioneers moving West in America, these pictures were easy to carry along and linked the family and friends they had left behind.

Andre Adolphe Disderi popularized these multiple portraits. Carte became fashionable when Napoleon the third stopped on the way to war to pose for Carte-de-visite at Disderi’s studio.