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

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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...View more