Felix Nadar: My life as a photographer

Balzac and the Daguerreotype
People were stunned when they heard that two inventors had perfected a process that could capture an image on a silver plate. It is impossible for us to imagine today the universal confusion that greeted this invention, so accustomed have we become to the the fact of photography and so inured are we by now to its vulgarization.

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