Félix Nadar
Artist
Biography
Nadar – the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820–1910) – was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. In 1858 he became the first person to take aerial photographs. His photographic portraits are held by many of the great national photography collections, and his studio hosted the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. His son Paul Nadar continued the studio after his death.