Monday 25 June 2018

174) Nadar

Nadar, pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820 – 1910). French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs.

- "As a young man in Paris, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), better known as Nadar, had blue eyes and red hair, was poor but threw fantastical parties and was impudence personified." https://www.nytimes.com/…/review-nadar-biography-adam-begle…

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