The famous painting by Pascal Dagnan-Dauveret "The bride and groom at the photographer", which marks the birth of the wedding album
The painting you see shown in photo, The bride and groom at the photographer, dated 1878 and the work of the French artist Pascal Dagnan-Bauveret , visually confirms the origins of a costume that, even with considerable technical differences, we keep substantially the same even today: photographing the salient moments of a wedding .
At the time when the painting was made, photography it was still a relatively new art and subject to continuous changes and improvements, but for some time it had caused the use of immortalizing significant events with images that would remain intact forever.
If until then family memories could only be passed on orally, now, finally, one could count on something much more concrete and tangible.
A revolution that ended up profoundly modifying the private and public life of most people, for whom photography, in certain circumstances, became an indispensable practice.
Thus the first “wedding albums” were born, collections of images of the salient phases of the ceremony to be shown later to children and grandchildren:today there is digital, but the meaning is the same.