biography
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Nadar
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pseudonym of Gaspard Félix Tournachon
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pronunciation:
[nadah(r)]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1820–1910)
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| biography:
| Writer, artist, and photographer, born in Paris, France. He studied medicine, but became a journalist, and in 1852 published a series of caricatures, some of which were based on his photographs. In 1853 he opened a photographic studio which became a favourite haunt of the intelligentsia, and for many years produced intimate and natural studies of distinguished literary and artistic contemporaries, in 1886 presenting the first ‘photo-interview’ - a sequence of photographs accompanied by caption quotations from the subject. Among other innovations he proposed the use of aerial photographs for map-making, and in 1858 took the first photographs from a balloon, of the city of Paris. |
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