Nadar (self-portrait).

Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (April 6, 1820 – March 21, 1910), a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Year 1820 ( MDCCCXX) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A photographer is a person who takes a Photograph using a Camera. A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing Caricatures List of caricaturists Oguz Aral (1936-2004 William Auerback-Levy A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story "Ballooning" redirects here For the behavior of Spiders and other Arthropods see Ballooning (spider.

Biography

"Nadar élevant la Photographie à la hauteur de l'Art" (Nadar elevating Photography to Art). Lithograph by Honore Daumier, appearing in Le Boulevard, May 25, 1863. Honoré Daumier ( February 26, 1808 &ndash February 10, 1879) was a French Printmaker, Caricaturist,

Nadar was born in 1820 in Paris (although some sources state Lyon). Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city ||-||} Lyon, also known as Lyons in English is a city in east-central France. He was a caricaturist for Le Charivari in 1848. Le Charivari was an illustrated newspaper published in Paris, France from 1832 to 1937. Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap In 1849 he created the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs. Year 1853 ( MDCCCLIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Aerial photography is the taking of Photographs of the ground from an elevated position Around 1863, Nadar built a huge (6000 m³) hot air balloon named Le Géant ("The Giant"), thereby inspiring Jules Verne's Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon). Year 1863 ( MDCCCLXIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon is an Adventure novel by Jules Verne. Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (Cinq semaines en ballon is an Adventure novel by Jules Verne. The "Géant" project was unsuccessful and convinced him that the future belonged to heavier-than-air machines. Afterwards "The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier than Air Machines" was established, with Nadar as president and Jules Verne as secretary. Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction

On his visit to Brussels with the Géant, on September 26, 1864, Nadar erected mobile barriers to keep the crowd at a safe distance. Brussels (Bruxelles pronounced; Brussel pronounced) officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar dedicates a Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Up to this day, mobile barriers are known in Belgium as Nadar barriers [1].

In April 1874, he lent his photo studio to a group of painters, thus making the first exhibition of the Impressionists possible. Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Impressionism was a 19th-century Art movement that began as a loose association of Paris -based Artists exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s He photographed Victor Hugo on his death-bed in 1885. Victor-Marie Hugo ( ( February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) was a French Poet, Playwright, Novelist Year 1885 ( MDCCCLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He is credited with having published (in 1886) the first photo-interview (of famous chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul, then a centenarian), and also took erotic photographs. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Michel Eugène Chevreul ( August 31, 1786 &ndash April 9, 1889) was a French Chemist whose work with Fatty acids Erotic photography is a style of Art photography of an Erotic, sexually suggestive and even sexually provocative nature

From 1895 until his return to Paris in 1909 the Nadar photo studio was in Marseille.

On his passing in 1910, Nadar was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise officially cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery" is the largest Cemetery in the city of Paris The character of "Michel Ardan" in Verne's De la Terre à la Lune (From Earth to the Moon) is inspired by Nadar. From the Earth to the Moon (De la Terre à la Lune 1865) is a humorous Science fantasy Novel by Jules Verne and is

Gallery

Charles Baudelaire	Sarah Bernhardt	Georges Boulanger	Georges Clemenceau
Camille Corot	Gustave Courbet	Charles-François Daubigny	Eugène Delacroix
Jules Favre in 1865	Léon Gambetta in 1870	Gustave Doré (1859)	Alexandre Dumas, père
Ilja Iljitsch Metschnikow	Jean-François Millet	Peter Kropotkin	Franz Liszt
Gérard de Nerval	Henri Rochefort	George Sand (1864)	Ernest H. Shackleton
Adolphe Thiers	Jules Verne	Marquis de Galliffet, the fusilleur de la Commune	Théophile Gautier
Le Bris and his flying machine, Albatros II	Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) - Self-portrait	Nadar's son, photographed by Nadar with members of the Second Japanese Embassy to Europe in 1863. Sarah Bernhardt (October 22 1844 &ndash March 26 1923 was a French stage actress and has been referred to as "the most famous actress in the history of the world" Georges Benjamin Clemenceau ( Mouilleron-en-Pareds ( Vendée) 28 September 1841 24 November 1929 was a French statesman physician and Journalist Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot ( July 17, 1796 &ndash February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and Printmaker For the French Admiral see Admiral Courbet (1828-1885 Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet ( 10 June 1819 &ndash Charles-François Daubigny ( Paris, February 15 1817 &ndash February 19 1878 in Paris was one of the painters of the Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 &ndash 13 August 1863 was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of Jules Claude Gabriel Favre ( March 21, 1809 – January 20, 1880) was a French statesman Léon Gambetta (2 April 1838 Cahors, Lot - 31 December 1882 Paris) was a French statesman prominent after the Franco-Prussian War Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (Илья Ильич Мечников ( May 16 1845 – July 15 1916) was a Russian microbiologist Jean-François Millet ( October 4, 1814 &ndash January 20, 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon Gérard de Nerval (ʒeʁaːʁ də nɛʁval ( May 22, 1808 &ndash January 26, 1855) was the Nom-de-plume of the Victor Henri Rochefort Marquis de Rochefort-LuCay ( January 30, 1830 - June 30, 1913) French Politician, was born in Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness (French baronne) Dudevant ( July 1, 1804 &ndash June 8, 1876 Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE, (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922 was an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period Louis-Adolphe fr Thiers ( Marseille, 16 April 1797&ndash3 September 1877 was a French politician and Historian. Jules Gabriel Verne ( February 8 1828 &ndash March 24 1905) was a French Author who pioneered the science-fiction Gaston Alexandre Auguste Marquis de Galliffet, Prince de Martignes ( Paris, January 23 1830 -1909 was a French General, best known The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris was a Government that briefly ruled Paris from 18 March (more formally from 26 March) to 28 May See also Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French Poet, Dramatist Jean-Marie Le Bris (1817 - 1872 was a French Aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany, who accomplished a glider flight in December 1856 The Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (Japanese第２回遣欧使節 also 横浜鎖港談判使節団, also called the Ikeda Mission, was sent on December 29th 1863	The former painter Charles Crodel with a sketch-book, photograph by Nadar, Marseille, 21 rue de Noailles, 1905

See also

• Prix Nadar, French photojournalism prize given in Nadar's name

External links

• Article about Nadar by Bruce Sterling
• 1867 Caricature of Nadar by André Gill