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The Arcades Project - Operi

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exposure time, I found it difficult to obtain from a human being the absolute,<br />

inorganic immobility I required. I tried to get round this difficulty by means of<br />

mannequins, which I dressed in worknlan's clothes and positioned in the scene<br />

with as little awkwardness as possible; this business did nothing to complicate<br />

our task . ... This nasty ordeal of photographing in the sewers and catacombs, it<br />

must be said, lasted no less than three consecutive months . . . . Altogether, I<br />

brought back a hundred negatives . . . . I made haste to offer the first hundred<br />

prints to the collections of the City of Paris put together by the eminent engineer<br />

of our subterranean constructions, M. Belgrand." Nadar, OEand .i'dais photographe<br />

(paris

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