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Nadar Nadar and his balloon, Le Géant Becque, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), c. 1880 Alphonse Bertillon Gustave Eiffel Charles de Freycinet, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) Victor Hugo Leopold I, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon). Marey, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) Massenet, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
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Nadar Self-portrait, salted paper print by Nadar, c. 1885; in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Nadar

French writer, caricaturist, and photographer
Also known as: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon
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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. As a young man, he studied medicine in Lyon, France, but, when his father’s publishing house went bankrupt in 1838, he was forced to earn his own livelihood. He began to write newspaper articles that he...

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