Paul Nadar in front of the Garnier Opera House
Attribué à George Eastman (1854-1932), 1888-1890
Instant snapshot taken with a Kodak camera
Silver print from a flexible Kodak negative, 13 x 11 cm.
BnF, Prints and Photographs Department, EO3 (NADAR)
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
In 1886, Paul Nadar became France's exclusive agent for the American company Eastman, which gave amateur photography a huge boost with its Kodak instant camera and its famous advertising slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest." Over the course of their four-year collaboration, Paul Nadar frequently met the firm's representatives, incuding the founder, George Eastman, when he visited Paris in 1888.
© BnF, Éditions multimédias, 2018