SOUND REPRODUCTIONS: The First Photographic Interview
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Chapter 3 analyzes a collaborative project between Nadar and his son Paul Nadar: a photographic interview with the centenarian scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul. The interview was simultaneously a celebration of Chevreul’s life in science and an occasion for the introduction of the new “instantaneous” Eastman roll film in France by Paul, Eastman Kodak’s Paris representative. The chapter explores how the photographic interview indexes conversations about media fidelity and historical objectivity across different media, including recorded sound, photography, and photomechanical reproduction.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Photographic and Visual Arts
Photography and Visual Culture
Visual Culture and Art Theory
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 67–90
- Publication date
- 13 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter