The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Report on the Catacombs of Paris: Façade N° 12

Félix Nadar, 1862

Albumen print from a collodion glass plate negative, 28.1 x 21.8 cm.
BnF, Prints and Photographs Department, EO-15 (20)-PET FOL
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
"I would be very pleased, dear Sir, if you could let yourself be tempted by the idea of applying your magnificent electric photography to providing a precise and picturesque (judging from the constantly growing number of visitors) representation of one of Paris’s most unusual curiosities […]."
Ernest Lamé-Fleury, Mining Engineer and Director of the Catacombs, in a letter to Nadar in 1861.