Hambourg, Maria Morris. Nadar. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995
Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]
Died: Paris, 21 March 1910
Nationality: French
family of printers
with photographers Camille d’Arnaud and Auguste Bertsch
1845 – publishes novel, The Dress of Déjanira
1846 – caricaturist for La Silhouette and Le Charivari
1848 – caricaturist for Revue comique
1849 – caricaturist for Journal pour rire
1850s – publishes Panthéon Nadar, lithographs of French celebrities, in Lanterne magique (1854) and Le Figaro (1858)
1853-54 – begins partnership with brother Adrien Tournachon; begins making photographic portraits
1860 – opens studio at 35 boulevard des Capucines; becomes a meeting-place for artists and intellectuals
1865 – stops producing caricatures
1874 –rents studio to the First Impressionist exhibition
1891 – founds journal Paris photographe
1899 – publishes autobiography, When I was a Photographer
Travels
Marseille (1895-1904)
Victoria (Queen of England)
Catacombs of Paris, c. 1861 (one of the first flash photographs)
Nadar made portraits of:
(all links to J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA)