When I Was a Photographer
Nadar, Felix / Cadava, Eduardo / Theodoratou, Liana
Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer¿and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist¿Félix 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. I...