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Adam Begley

Adam Begley is the author of Updike. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement. This essay is adapted from his forthcoming book, The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera.

A Wink and a Nod

A Wink and a Nod

The French artist Nadar at his most subversive and sly

by Adam Begley | Monday, June 05, 2017

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by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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