Merode Cleo (1894) and Sarah Bernhardt (Pierrot assassin , 1883)
Today I was in the exhibition of portraits of Atelier Nadar can be visited at the castle of Tours (France) until November 7, 2010. A gallery of the past to me produced the perplexity of mind that is no longer. Those faces, those lives, those minds who are looking to see from a time we can only guess Through the figure set by the camera. Fascinating. And also fascinating are the two photographs that have chosen to announce the exhibition: the two women. The famous actress Sarah Bernhardt and the now forgotten Dancer Paris Opera, Cléo de Merode, a nineteenth-century beauty with your hair might seem like a hippie melancholy of the twentieth century.
The sample divides the work in the two periods of the famous workshop of the origins of photography: the father, Felix, and the son, Paul. Felix Nadar practiced the art of portraiture solemn and, as expected, in this part are marshals, ambassadors, statesmen, painters and writers (Baudelaire, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Gautier Téophile ...), knights of order and of bohemia. Few women, including George Sand, the writer who always wore male clothes, except on holidays. We see majestic postage. 
In the second phase of production of the workshop, Paul Nadar leaves the style of his father, stern and solemn. Is moving towards a popularization and democratization of photography. Then appear numerous women: the singers and actresses of the Belle Époque. The exhibition's title is significant: The standard and whim.
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