- Nadar - Wikipedia
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (French: [ɡaspaʁ feliks tuʁnaʃɔ̃]; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1]), known by the pseudonym Nadar (French: [nadaʁ]) or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight
- Nadar | Biography, Balloon, Photography, Caricatures, Facts - Britannica
Nadar (born April 5, 1820, Paris, France—died March 21, 1910, Paris) was a French writer, caricaturist, and photographer who is remembered primarily for his photographic portraits, which are considered to be among the best done in the 19th century
- Nadar Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
Nadar was a flamboyant personality and a man of infatigable spirit A writer, caricaturist, inventor and adventurer, yet still best known perhaps as a celebrity portrait photographer, he placed himself at the very epicenter of nineteenth century French modernism
- Felix Nadar - 261 artworks - photography - WikiArt. org
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (6 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight In 1858 he became the first person to take aerial photographs
- Nadar (1820–1910) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon in 1820, the son of a liberal publisher, Nadar grew up in Paris in the heady ferment of Romanticism Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, and Eugène Delacroix were his early heroes; Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, and Charles Baudelaire his maturing friends
- Photographs of the Famous by Felix Nadar - The Public Domain Review
He took his first photographs in 1853 and pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris Around 1863, Nadar built a huge (6000 m³) balloon named Le Géant ("The Giant"), thereby inspiring Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon
- The Nadars, a photographic legend - BnF
As “Nadar” has become a shared pseudonym, it has also become an internationally recognized brand The Nadar name stirs the imagination with caricatures, photographs and aerostats
- Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (Getty Museum)
Tournachon's nickname, Nadar, derived from youthful slang, but became his professional signature and the name by which he is best known today Poor but talented, Nadar began by scratching out a living as a freelance writer and caricaturist
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