Although Eduardo Cadava’s introduction to this first-ever complete English translation of Quand j’étais photographe positions Nadar’s photography as a form of mourning, the subject himself refuses to ...

It began with a photograph of a strikingly beautiful black woman, taken by Felix Nadar in Paris, in the middle of the 19th century. Looking at it more than 100 years later, Maud Sulter, poet, artist, ...