Retro celebrity photographer Nadar (Nadar)

As you can imagine, this is not the name of the photographer, but only his nickname. Actually this French photographer, writer and cartoonist balloonist named Gaspard Felix Turnashon (Gaspard Felix Tournachon).

As you may recall from our material on the history of photography, this is the title belongs to the Frenchman photos taken the first ever shot from the air in 1858, the year. By the time Nadar three years studied photography. Strangely, originally a future legend of photography was opposed to this art form. Perhaps because he was a good artist and I saw in the pictures direct competitor portraitist. About the photo itself, later, Nadar said that the equipment and techniques can be learned in one day, but the ability to feel the light is impossible to know. It is inherent in any person, or it is not. The Frenchman died in 1910 at the age of 90 years (without the two weeks). We offer you a series of portraits of his photographs depicting the great men of the time.

The poet and critic Charles Baudelaire.





Actress Sarah Bernhardt.





Illustrator and painter Gustave Dore.



Writer Alexander Dumas (senior).



Biologist Ilya Mechnikov.



Russian politician Peter Kropotkin.



Composer Franz Liszt.



Fourth Iranian Shah Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar.



The writer George Sand.



Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton.



Writer and geographer Jules Verne.



Entomologist and writer Jean-Henri Fabre.



Writer Emile Zola.



The sculptor Auguste Rodin.



Painter Claude Monet.



The chemist and inventor Louis Daguerre.



Composer Claude Debussy.



The painter and engraver Edouard Manet.



Composer Giuseppe Verdi.



Chemist microbiologist Louis Pasteur.



Thinker and politician anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.



The composer Hector Berlioz.



The writer Alphonse Daudet.



Self-portraits.