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 writers from Walter Benjamin to Rosalind Krauss. This is its first and only complete English...
Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer -- and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist -- Felix Nadar published this memoir of his...
