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
