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Nadar

Portrait of Baudelaire

1856–58
albumen print, cabinet card

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, who wrote scathingly about photography, was nonetheless close friends with the famed photographer Nadar.

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