{"id":4041,"date":"2017-07-07T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T13:20:59","slug":"begley-cites-updike-in-his-new-biography-of-the-great-nadar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/07\/begley-cites-updike-in-his-new-biography-of-the-great-nadar\/","title":{"rendered":"Begley cites Updike in his new biography of The Great Nadar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/9781101902608.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4042\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/9781101902608.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a>In his new well-reviewed biography,\u00a0<em>The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera<\/em>, Updike biographer <strong>Adam Begley<\/strong> writes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, and Nadar instantly claimed a place in my private pantheon of great artists. But as <strong>John Updike<\/strong> observed in his review of the show, &#8216;Photography is a matter of time&#8217;\u2014nearly twenty years passed before I tried to find out about Nadar&#8217;s life. The catalyst was Julian Barnes&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Levels of Life<\/em>, an unusual book, part essay, part short story, part memoir, in which Barnes briefly sketches the contours of Nadar&#8217;s curious career and irrepressible character. Thanks to Barnes, F\u00e9lix charmed me, as he had charmed so many others. And so I went back to the photographs to look again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/adam-begley\/the-great-nadar\/\">&#8220;The Great Nadar by Adam Begley \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/a>: &#8220;A lively portrait of a photography pioneer who altered the cultural landscape of 19th-century France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Nadar-Man-Behind-Camera\/dp\/1101902604\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499429911&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+great+nadar+the+man+behind+the+camera\">Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new well-reviewed biography,\u00a0The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera, Updike biographer Adam Begley writes, &#8220;I saw the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, and Nadar instantly claimed a place in my private pantheon of great artists. But as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/07\/begley-cites-updike-in-his-new-biography-of-the-great-nadar\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews","category-updike-quoted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}