Honoré de Balzac’s Greatest Fear? Being Photographed

Photography was once new. The French photographer known as Nadar (born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820-1910) dramatically described the introduction of this medium to our world: Exploding unexpectedly, totally unexpectedly, surpassing all possible expectations, diverting everything that we thought we knew and even what could be hypothesized, the new discovery indeed appeared as, and still is, the…

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