When I Was a Photographer - Nadar Felix
When I Was a Photographer - Nadar Felix 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…
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When I Was a Photographer - Nadar Felix
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.Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer--and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist--F lix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. It is a classic work, cited by writers from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss. Composed as a series of vignettes (we might view them as a series of "written photographs"), this intelligent and witty book offers stories of Nadar's experiences in the early years of photography, memorable character sketches, and meditations on history.
This is its first and only complete English translation.In When I Was a Photographer (Quand j' tais photographe), Nadar tells us about his descent into the sewers and