The Arcades Project - Operi

the other hand, Fournel condemns the conventional poses that relied on props
such as Disderi had introduced. [Y5a,4]
Without indicating his source, Delvau cites this description of Nadar's appearance:
"His hair has the reddish glow of a setting sun; its reflection spreads across
his face, where bouquets of curly and contentious locks spill this way and that,
unruly as fireworks. Extremely dilated, the eyehall rolls, testifying to a truly unappeasable
curiosity and a perpetual astonishment. The voice is strident; the
gestures are those of a Nuremberg doll with a fever." Allred Delvau, Les Lions du
jour (Pari., 1867), 1'. 219. [Y5a,5]
Nadal" speaking of himself: 'A born rebel where all bondage is concerned, impatient
of all proprieties, having never been able to answer a letter within two years,
an outlaw in all houses where you cannot put your feet up before the fire, and
finally-so that nothing should be lacking, not even a last physical defect, to
complete the measure of all these amiable qualities and win him more good
friends-nearsighted to the point of blindness and consequently liable to the most
insulting amnesia in the presence of any face which he has not seen more than
twenty-five times at a distance of fifteen centimeters from his nose." Cited in Alfred
Delvau, Les Lions dujou.r (Pari., 1867), 1'. 222. [Y5a,6]
Inventions from around 184.8: matches, stearin candles, steel pens. [Y5a,7]
Invention of the mechanical press in 1814. It was first utilized by the Times.
[Y5a,8]
Nadar's self-characterization: 'Formerly a maker of caricatures . .. , ultimately a
refugee in the Botany Bay of photography." Cited in Alfred Delvau, Les Lions du
jou.r (Paris, 1867), 1'. 220. [Y6,1]
On Nadal': '"What will remain, one day, of the author of Le Miroir aux alauettes
, of La Robe de Dejanire, of QUfUul j'etais etudiant? I do not
know. What I do know is that, on a cyclopean pile on the island of Gozo, a Polish
poet, Czeslaw Karski, has engraved in Arabic, but with Latin letters, (,Nadar of
the fiery locks passed in the air above this tower,' and that the inhabitants of the
island very likely still have not left off worshiping him as an unknown God."
Alfred Delvau, Les Lions dujour (Paris, 1867), Pl" 223-224. [Y6,2]
Genre photography: the sculptor Callimachus, on viewing an acanthus plant, invents
the Corinthian capital.-Leonardo paints the Mona Lisa.-La Claire et le
pot (mfeu