Felix-Gaspar Tournachon Nadar

Felix Gaspar Tornachon Nadar ( 1820 – 1910 ):

French photographer, he was one of the first portraitist. Like Le Gray he was more interested in art than in making money, for that reason both of them had economic problems.

He refused to retouching the color in his portraits and also renounce to use props. The gesture and the light are the main elements.

He  made portraits of many celebrities of the time.

Sarah Bernhardt

Gustave Doré

George Sand

Eugene Delacroix

Alexander Dumas

Jules Verne

Auguste Rodin

Charles Baudelaire

Emile Zola

Selfportrait

He made the first aerial photographs in histoty.

He was also the first to use artificial light, it was in the catacombs of Paris.