Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nadar’s Photographopolis
Translators’ Note
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
Chronology
Notes
Index