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When I Was a Photographer
Felix Nadar
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Description for When I Was a Photographer
Hardcover. Translation of: Quand j'aetais photographe. Translator(s): Cadava, Eduardo; Theodoratou, Liana. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: AJB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 20. .
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-Felix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. 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. It is a classic work, cited by ... Read more
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-Felix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. 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. It is a classic work, cited by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262029452
SKU
V9780262029452
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About Felix Nadar
Felix Nadar (1820-1910) is one of the greatest figures in the history of photography. Eduardo Cadava, a writer, translator, and scholar, is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History, coeditor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography, and Professor of English at Princeton University. Liana Theodoratou, Clinical Professor of Hellenic Studies and Director of the A. ... Read more
Reviews for When I Was a Photographer
Nadar's book has finally been translated into English.... [M]any of the vignettes in When I Was a Photographer are infused with his rebellious zest. -The Wall Street Journal This compact volume gives the sense of being present for the invention of photography.... [Nadar] writes engagingly of photographing a dead man and meeting a bee tamer, and we ... Read more