Nadar - Wikipedia
WEBGaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1]), known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix 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. [2]
Nadar (1820–1910) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBBorn 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.
Nadar | Biography, Balloon, Photography, Caricatures, & Facts
WEBGaspard-Félix Tournachon. Born: April 5, 1820, Paris, France. Died: March 21, 1910, Paris (aged 89) Nadar (born April 5, 1820, Paris, France—died March 21, 1910, Paris) …
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) | MoMA
WEBGaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix 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.
Felix Nadar - 246 artworks - photography
WEBMar 20, 2021 · 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.
How Nadar Became the First Great Portrait Photographer - TIME
WEBJul 11, 2017 · Born in 1820 as Gaspard-Félix Tournachon but known both personally and professionally by his pseudonym Nadar, he mastered the art of photography while it was still in its infancy.
Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) | The Art Institute of Chicago
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Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (Getty Museum)
WEBAug 21, 2024 · So wrote a critic of Gaspard Félix Tournachon in 1859. Tournachon's nickname, Nadar, derived from youthful slang, but became his professional signature and the name by which he is best known today.
The Origins of Aerial Photography - The New Yorker
WEBOct 24, 2014 · In 1858, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who used the pseudonym Nadar, captured the first aerial photographs, photographing Paris from a tethered balloon at an altitude of sixteen hundred feet.
Félix Nadar: The world’s first celebrity photographer - BBC
WEBJan 14, 2019 · Born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon in 1820, he was given the pseudonym Nadar by a friend and soon started using it as a pen name.