One of the more unlikely sites for a photographic history museum might be
Tashkent, Uzbekistan. In 1890 Paul Nadar, son of Felix Nadar, traveled to
Tashkent, documenting the “ Silk Road.” He used the new favorite of travel
Photographers, the Kodak Camera. In 2010 an exhibition of Nadar’s photographs
was held at the House of Photography in Tashkent. The exhibition was featured
on the British Photographic History site. In the description of the exhibition, the
statement was made that in 1893 Nadar became George Eastman’s agent in
France. This is incorrect. Nadar had been Eastman’s agent since 1886.
Around 1893 he won a lawsuit against Eastman for contract problems.
The relationship between them was terminated some time before that. Where
did this error come from?
Perhaps from the Getty Museum. Google Paul Nadar and the first entry is
the biography from the Getty website. The same statement is made there, that
Nadar became Eastman’s agent in 1893. So, Getty to British Photographic History
blog to Tashkent ? The details of the true story are easily found in Elizabeth
Brayer’s Biography of Eastman.
George Layne - Philadelphia
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