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Nadar

1820 - 1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (French pronunciation: [ɡaspaʁ feliks tuʁnaʃɔ̃]; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar (pronounced [nadaʁ]) or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nadar is the most popular photographer, the 255th most popular biography from France (up from 335th in 2019) and the most popular French Photographer.

Nadar was a photographer and journalist in France during the 1800s. He is most famous for his work capturing the lives of people in Paris during the 1850s.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Nadar ranks 1 out of 148. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Heinrich Hoffmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Alberto Korda, Helmut Newton, Dora Maar, Alexander Rodchenko, Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Oliviero Toscani, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Among people born in 1820, Nadar ranks 5. Before him are Friedrich Engels, Florence Nightingale, Victor Emmanuel II of Italy, and Herbert Spencer. After him are William John Macquorn Rankine, Anne Brontë, Harriet Tubman, Henri, Count of Chambord, Edmond Becquerel, Henri Vieuxtemps, and Multatuli. Among people deceased in 1910, Nadar ranks 10. Before him are Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, Florence Nightingale, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, William James, and Henri Rousseau. After him are O. Henry, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Mily Balakirev, Chulalongkorn, Johann Gottfried Galle, and Marius Petipa.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nadar ranks 255 out of 6,770. Before him are Alfred Dreyfus (1859), Camille Claudel (1864), Henri Moissan (1852), Georges Cuvier (1769), John II of France (1319), and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796). After him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Arsène Wenger (1949), Louis VI of France (1081), Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), François Truffaut (1932), and Philip III of France (1245).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Nadar ranks 1. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Dora Maar (1907), Robert Doisneau (1912), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Étienne Carjat (1828), Sophie Calle (1953), Claude Cahun (1894), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), and Patrick Demarchelier (1943).

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