Talk:André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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It seems to me that the André-Adolphe-Eugène_Disdéri listing is more of a stub than the Andre Disdéri listing, and has some information that is either factually incorrect or in dispute regarding crediting Disdéri as the inventor of the Carte de visite. Sources cited at Andre Disdéri credit Louis Dodero as the inventor of the Carte de visite.

In any case, the Andre Disdéri listing seems more thorough and better referenced. I created Andre Disdéri because I saw a broken link in another listing. However, I later found André-Adolphe-Eugène_Disdéri in another related listing. unsigned comment by Mactographer

I agree regarding the merge. Certainly this article is a stub that I intended to expand at some point. Regardingthe form of his name. Here are a number of authoritative sources:

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri - J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Disdéri, André Adolphe Eugène - [BHA Preferred] - Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) [online] (1990-).

Disderi, Andre-Adolphe-Eugene - [JPGM Preferred, VP] - Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)

Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène - [VP Preferred] - J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Disdéri, André-Adolphe-Eugène - Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 10 February 2004

These versions are all cited in the Disdéri page at Union List of Artist Names. You'll notice that there are three different "preferred" versions, including two different ones within the same institution (The Getty)! I went with "André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri" because it was one of these preferred versions and also the preferred version of the Library of Congress Authorities (i.e. the Anglo-American Name Authority File), but the same all-name version without the hyphen between "André" and "Adolphe" would be fine with me. Only informal references to Disdéri give his name as "André Disdéri" and the Leggat source you cite gives "DISDÉRI, Andre Adolphe Eugene" in the biography page. More later. Pinkville 12:06, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, forgot to sign my first entry. I'm still new here and didn't understand how that --~~~~ thing was supposed to function as a signature.

As for the names, I'm okay with whatever seems more preferred. But, 1) we agree, these articles should obviously be merged, and 2) I think sources I’ve found state that technically, Disdéri is not the inventor of the CdV, but rather the guy who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to get famous for taking a photo of a popular historical figure. Parenthetically, I seem to recall some of the points of that story might be in dispute by others as well. But either way, it seems that Disdéri is mistakenly credited for inventing the CdV because of the Napoleon story and because of his patient for making 8 CdV’s at a time. So do we discuss more? Wait for other's to chime in? Looks like there's a backlog of articles to be merged. Who decides such things? --Mactographer 17:49, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Merge conudcted, lets get it out of the backlog. Orchid Righteous 13:03, 30 August 2006 (UTC)