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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

Jun 16, 202670:10Science & Medicine

Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is mixed. In Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts (Duke UP, 2026), Doucet analyzes the historical an...

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Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026) is an episode from New Books in Communications. Félix Nadar took the first aerial photograph in 1858, so the story goes. The evidence, Emily Doucet notes, is...

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Published Jun 16, 2026, 70:10 long, audio available.

Emily Doucet, "Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts" (Duke UP, 2026)

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