Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Celebrity portrait photographers |
| Techniques and processes |
| 2 | Daguerreotypes: Celebrities |
| 3 | Albumen prints: Celebrities |
| 4 | Cartes de visite: Celebrities |
| 5 | Cabinet cards: Celebrities |
| Celebrities of their age |
| 6 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil engineer (1806-1859) |
| 7 | Charles Darwin, Naturalist, geologist, and biologist (1809-1882) |
| 8 | Samuel Morse, American inventor and painter (1791-1872) |
| 9 | Abraham Lincoln: A photographic legacy |
| 10 | Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general, revolutionary and republican (1807-1882) |
| 11 | Tom Thumb, American performer (1838-1883) |
| 12 | Buffalo Bill Cody, American frontiersman and showman (1846-1917) |
| 13 | Jenny Lind, Opera singer (1820-1887) |
| 14 | Sarah Bernhardt, French stage actress (1844-1923) |
| 15 | Charles Dickens, Novelist (1812-1870) |
| 16 | Victor Hugo, French novelist (1802-1885) |
| 17 | Josef Stalin (1878–1953) |
| 18 | Pablo Picasso, Artist (1881-1973) |
| Galleries of celebrities |
| 19 | Mathew Brady (publisher): The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington (1850) |
| 20 | Franz Hanfstaengl: Portraits |
| 21 | Maull & Polyblank: Photographic Portraits of Living Celebrities (1856-1859) |
| 22 | Ernest Edwards: Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs (1863) |
| 23 | Album of photographic portraits of August persons and persons well-known in Russia (1865) |
| 24 | Thomas Houseworth: Houseworth's Celebrities |
| 25 | Sarony: Stereo Celebrities |
| 26 | Thompson Cooper, Lock & Whitfield: Men of Mark (1876-1883) |
| 27 | Galerie Contemporaine, Litteraire, Artistique |
| 28 | Nadar: Galerie Contemporaine, Littéraire, Artistique |
| 29 | Paris-Theatre / Paris-Portrait |
| 30 | Herbert Rose Barraud: Portraits |
| 31 | Alvin Langdon Coburn: Men of Mark (1913) |
| 32 | Alvin Langdon Coburn: More Men of Mark (1922) |
| Photographers |
| 33 | Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Portraits |
| 34 | Benjamin Strauss and Homer Peyton: Celebrity portraits |
| Masters of the celebrity |
| 35 | Yousuf Karsh: Portraits |
| 36 | Andy Warhol: Portraits and appropriation |
| 37 | Annie Leibovitz: Portraits |
| 38 | Martin Schoeller: Portraits |
| Photographers become celebrities |
| 39 | Celebrity photographers who became celebrities |
