Nadar--Warhol, Paris--New York

Photography and Fame

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by Gordon Baldwin, Felix Nadar and Judith Keller

Getty Trust Publications

Due/Published September 1999, 240 pages, cloth

ISBN 0892365609

This engaging catalog features the photographic portraiture of the nineteenth-century Parisian Nadar and the twentieth-century New Yorker Andy Warhol. The two photographers have more in common than one might suppose, particularly as adroit manipulators who simultaneously promoted their own reputations and those of their subjects. Both men emerged from the Bohemia of their day to become photographers after following earlier artistic pursuits: Nadar as a writer and caricaturist, Warhol as a commercial graphic artist, then painter and filmmaker.