countess of castiglione

Identity
The Scandalous, Narcissistic 19th-Century Countess Who Became Her Own Muse
The Countess of Castiglione was obsessed with her own beauty, and meticulously art directed hundreds of portraits of herself over the course of her life.
Rosalind Jana
1.4.17
Tech
The New-Old Photogenics: How the Countess of Castiglione Launched Portrait Photography
With all due respect to those noble Frenchmen who inadvertently huffed so much silver nitrate while inventing photography, recounting the self-obsessed origins of the camera and photograph may only be possible by looking at how these technologies...
Ben Richmond
6.4.12