When I Was a Photographer
$55.04
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
6 November 2015
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.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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262029452 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262029456 |
| Author: | Félix Nadar, Eduardo Cadava, Liana Theodoratou |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 6 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 137mm x 27mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
When I Was a Photographer brims with Nadar’s wisdom on a multitude of subjects and subtleties of creative work.
Nadar’s book has finally been translated into English…. [M]any of the vignettes in When I Was a Photographer are infused with his rebellious zest.
—The Wall Street JournalThis compact volume gives the sense of being present for the invention of photography…. [Nadar] writes engagingly of photographing a dead man and meeting a bee tamer, and we are charmed.
—San Francisco ChronicleWhen I Was a Photographer brims with Nadar’s wisdom on a multitude of subjects and subtleties of creative work.
—Brain PickingsThe book presents a fresh opportunity to consider a bizarre and compelling character…. In the age of the selfie, Nadar reminds us of the brave beginnings of a medium that changed the world.
—Adam Begley, The GuardianAbout The Author
Félix Nadar
Felix Nadar (1820-1910) is one of the greatest figures in the history of photography. Eduardo Cadava, a writer, translator, and scholar, is the author of Words of Light- Theses on the Photography of History, coeditor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography, and Professor of English at Princeton University. Liana Theodoratou, Clinical Professor of Hellenic Studies and Director of the A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at New York University, is a scholar and writer and the translator of several works by Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault into modern Greek.Eduardo Cadava, a writer, translator, and scholar, is the author of Words of Light- Theses on the Photography of History, coeditor of The Itinerant Languages of Photography, and Professor of English at Princeton University.Liana Theodoratou, Clinical Professor of Hellenic Studies and Director of the A. S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at New York University, is a scholar and writer and the translator of several works by Althusser, Derrida, and Foucault into modern Greek.
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