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Author Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910, author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (lv, 274 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Translation of: Quand j'étais photographe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 -- Anecdotes.
Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject Photography -- France -- Anecdotes.
Photography.
France.
Photographers -- France -- Anecdotes.
Photographers.
Indexed Term ARTS/Photography & Film/General
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Added Author Cadava, Eduardo, translator.
Theodoratou, Liana, 1958- translator.
Added Title Quand j'étais photographe. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015021846
Other Form: Print version: Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910. Quand j'étais photographe. English. When I was a photographer. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015] 9780262029452 (DLC) 2015001894 (OCoLC)907390435
ISBN 9780262330718 (electronic book)
0262330717 (electronic book)
9780262330725 (electronic book)
0262330725 (electronic book)
9780262029452
0262029456