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Nadar
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a 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…
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culture · French photographer and balloonist (1820–1910) · photographer · balloonist · cartoonist · caricaturist · writer · journalist · draftsperson · print collector · graphic artist · also Nadar, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, Félix Nadar, Tournadar
Born 6 April 1820 · Died 20 March 1910 · Q40116
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fact checker rated the claim “UNESCO declared Nadar community as the most ancient race in the world” False.
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fact checker rated the claim “UNESCO declared Nadar community as the most ancient race in the world” False.
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1910· 1 entry
Died 1910-03-20.
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1886· 1 entry
With his son Paul, he did what may be the first photo-report: an interview with the great scientist Michel Eugène Chevreul, who at the time was 100 years old
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1867· 2 entries
Published the first magazine to focus on air travel: L'Aéronaute
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Was able to take as many as a dozen passengers aloft at once, serving cold chicken and wine
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1863· 1 entry
Nadar commissioned the prominent balloonist Eugène Godard to construct an enormous balloon, 60 metres (196 ft) high and with a capacity of 6,000 m3 (210,000 ft3), and named Le Géant (The Giant)
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1862· 1 entry
Verne and Nadar established a Société pour la recherche de la navigation aérienne, which later became La Société d'encouragement de la locomotion aérienne au moyen du plus lourd que l'air (The Society for the Encourageme
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1860· 1 entry
Nadar moved to 35 Boulevard des Capucines where he photographed a wide range of personalities: politicians (Guizot, Proudhon), stage actors (Sarah Bernhardt, Paulus), writers (Hugo, Baudelaire, Sand, Nerval, Gautier, Dum
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1858· 1 entry
Became the first person to take aerial photographs
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1854· 1 entry
A friend encouraged Nadar to begin a portrait photography business
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1849· 1 entry
Founded La Revue Comique à l'Usage des Gens Sérieux
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1820· 1 entry
Born 1820-04-06.
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