The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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The Banker D.'s hand

Félix Nadar, 1861

"Snapshot taken with daylight. Print made in one hour by electric light."
Cropped albumen paper print from a collodion glass negative
French Photography Society, SFP 307 29
"Banker D." may well have been Benjamin Delessert, an amateur photographer and a member of the French Photography Society. It would be nice to think it was actually the Banker "P.," as in Eugène Péreire, who opened his hand wide and often to save Nadar from his frequent financial woes. But it is risky to speculate on the likelihood of a typographic error...