Photography

The violence of the image: photography as a magical act

In his memoir Quand j’étais photographe (1900), the early French photographer Félix Nadar recounts a story about Honoré de Balzac, who was reluctant to have his picture taken due to his belief that the human body was made of numerous spectral layers, and that “[s]ince… man was incapable of making something material from an apparition,

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