Nadar's Photographopolis

Eduardo Cadava teaches in the Department of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History (Princeton University Press, 1998) and Emerson and the Climates of History (Stanford University Press, 1997). He is currently completing a translation of Nadar's memoirs for MIT Press and a collection of essays on the ethics and politics of mourning titled “Mourning Politics.” His book Paper Graveyards: Essays on Art and Photography is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2013.