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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

NADAR_ ileValli la Photograpbie it 1a hau\f,lll' de rArl Nadar in his balloon. Lithograph by Honan' Daumier, 1862. The caption reads: "Nadar raising photography to the level of art." See Y6,2. There is a certain relation between the invention of photography and the invention of the mirror-stereoscope by Wheatstone in 1838. "It displays two different images of the same object: to the right eye, an image representing the object in perspective as it would be seen from the viewpoint of the right eye; to the left eye, all image of the object as it would appear to the left eye. TIns gives rise to the illusion that we have ... before us a three-dimensional object" (Egon Friedel!, Kulturgeschichte der .Neuzeit, vol. 3 [Munich, 1931], p. 139). The exactness re-

NADAR_ ileValli la Photograpbie it 1a hau\f,lll' de rArl<br />

Nadar in his balloon. Lithograph by Honan' Daumier, 1862. <strong>The</strong> caption reads:<br />

"Nadar raising photography to the level of art." See Y6,2.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a certain relation between the invention of photography and the invention<br />

of the mirror-stereoscope by Wheatstone in 1838. "It displays two different<br />

images of the same object: to the right eye, an image representing the object in<br />

perspective as it would be seen from the viewpoint of the right eye; to the left eye,<br />

all image of the object as it would appear to the left eye. TIns gives rise to the<br />

illusion that we have ... before us a three-dimensional object" (Egon Friedel!,<br />

Kulturgeschichte der .Neuzeit, vol. 3 [Munich, 1931], p. 139). <strong>The</strong> exactness re-

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