Felix tournachon nadar biography of alberta

Self-portrait, 1854

Country: France
Birth: 1820 |Death:† 1910

Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon.

Nadar was born in April 1820 in Paris (though some sources state Lyon).

As a young man in Paris, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (), better known as Nadar, had blue eyes and red hair, was poor but threw fantastical parties and.

History of photography and art through the lens of this iconic figure.

Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, was one of the greatest portraitists in photographic history.

Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (French, - ), Eugène Atget Alberta Tiburzi with Neon Necklace, Paris.

Gaspar Félix Tournachon (Nadar) had taken the first aerial photographs from a balloon in , and the military was attaching cameras to kites and other.

He was a caricaturist for Le Charivari in 1848. In 1849 he created the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire. He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs. He also 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.

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