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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
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (lv, 274 pages)
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
Analysis ARTS/Photography & Film/General
HUMANITIES/Biography & Autobiography
Notes Translation of: Quand j'étais photographe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 -- Anecdotes
SUBJECT Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910 fast
Subject Photography -- France -- Anecdotes
Photographers -- France -- Anecdotes
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Photographers
Photography
France
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Anecdotes
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Cadava, Eduardo, translator.
Theodoratou, Liana, 1958- translator.
ISBN 9780262330718
0262330717
9780262330725
0262330725
Other Titles Quand j'étais photographe. English