Nadar - Wikipedia
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ feliks tuʁnaʃɔ̃]; 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.
Nadar (1820–1910) | Essay - 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, …
Felix Nadar - 256 artworks - photography - WikiArt.org
Mar 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.
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) - MoMA
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ feliks tuʁnaʃɔ̃]; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar ([nadaʁ]) or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight.
Nadar Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
It was during these years that he abandoned his given name (Félix Tournachon) for a new, less bourgeois, name: Nadar. Having created their own language as adolescents, Félix and his friends idly created new words and names by adding the letters "dar" to the end of said word.
Nadar - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nadar, whose real name was Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over, as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic Utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics.
Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon] (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection)
Dec 3, 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. Poor but talented, Nadar began by scratching out a living as a freelance writer and caricaturist.
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) - International Photography …
In 1839, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon chose a pseudonym as was popular for writers at the time. Changing the last syllable of Tournachon to “dar” (also a popular pun) and dropping the “Tour” he became Nadar. By 1845, he had published the first of 15 books as well as numerous articles.
The incomparable Nadar: Master photographer, political cartoonist …
Mar 22, 2013 · He was born Gaspard Félix Tournachon in 1820, and grew up in Paris. He first became known for his biting and sarcastic political cartoons which earned him the nickname "tourne à dard"--...
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon “Nadar” Biography - Museum of Art
He held the first Impressionist exhibition in his studio in 1874, providing a forum for the art of Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Francisco Pizarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1979.