Visual Philosophy Buying the Overlay When You Need the Erase The technical reality of a preset is stubbornly indifferent to the story you are trying to tell. In the winter of 1854, a man named André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri stood in a drafty Parisian studio and realized that the elite were tired of being unique; they wanted to be many. He patented the “carte de visite,” a method of capturing eight small portraits on a single large plate. It was the birth … Continue reading “Buying the Overlay When You Need the Erase”