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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814123003321

Autore

Nadar Félix <1820-1910, >

Titolo

When I was a photographer / / Felix Nadar ; translated by Eduardo Cadava and Liana Theodoratou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-33072-5

0-262-33071-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Disciplina

770.92

Soggetti

Photography - France

Photographers - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Quand j'étais photographe.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Translators' Note; Balzac and the Daguerreotype; Gazebon Avenged; The Blind Princess; Homicidal Photography; The First Attempt at Aerostatic Photography; Subterranean Paris; Female and Male Clients; The Professional Secret; Doctor Van Monckhoven; Obsidional Photography; The Primitives of Photography; The New President of the French Society of Photography; The Bee Tamer; 1830 and Thereabouts; Chronology; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography.