Book description
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.
Celebrated nineteenth-century photographerâand writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonistâFĂ©lix Nadar published this memoir of his photographic life in 1900 at the age of eighty. ComposedâŠ
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1 author picked When I Was a Photographer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Iâve always loved the portraits the photographer FĂ©lix Nadar made of nineteenth-century Parisian celebrities such as Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire.
I went to this bookâNadarâs memoirâto learn more about the making of those pictures. There is a little bit of that, but what really gripped me was the weird and wonderful shaggy dog stories Nadar tells about his adventures in âaerostatic photographyââtaking pictures from balloons.
Spoiler alert: there is a lot of crashing.
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