{"id":1679,"date":"2013-12-24T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/before-photography-became-widespread-paper\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T16:39:25","slug":"before-photography-became-widespread-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/before-photography-became-widespread-paper\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1679 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/before-photography-became-widespread-paper\/attachment\/1680\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m8hs9rmfXd1r3qmd1o4_r1_540-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/before-photography-became-widespread-paper\/attachment\/1681\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m8hs9rmfXd1r3qmd1o1_400-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/24\/before-photography-became-widespread-paper\/attachment\/1682\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/tumblr_m8hs9rmfXd1r3qmd1o3_400-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Before photography became widespread, paper silhouettes were an affordable alternative to\u00a0painted portraits. The name itself is derived from 18th century French financial minister Etienne de Silhouette, whose penny-pinching policies made him infamous and his name associated\u00a0with\u00a0frugality. Silhouettes were the cheapest way to\u00a0record a loved one&rsquo;s likeness. They immortalized spouses, children, friends and even pets. These creations could be hung in lockets or put in frames, and sometimes included incredible hand-drawn\u00a0backgrounds, such as those in the two bottom portraits. (These portraits are from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society, one of the Center&rsquo;s partners.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before photography became widespread, paper silhouettes were an affordable alternative to\u00a0painted portraits. The name itself is derived from 18th century French financial minister Etienne de Silhouette, whose penny-pinching policies made him infamous and his name associated\u00a0with\u00a0frugality. Silhouettes were the cheapest way to\u00a0record a loved one&rsquo;s likeness. They immortalized spouses, children, friends and even pets. These creations could be hung in lockets or put in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[75,195,637,638,8,636,639],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-american-jewish-historical-society","tag-art","tag-drawing","tag-etienne-de-silhouette","tag-history","tag-portrait","tag-silhouettes","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}