page_title: Nadar
hierarchical_section_title: Nadar
caption_attribution_description: English: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; (add. info.: Gaspard Felix Tournachon (1820-1910); photographer who used a balloon to take photographs of Paris; self portrait; auto portrait); Archives Charmet; French, out of copyright
context_page_description: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym 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.
context_section_description: Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (6 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym 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.
caption: Self-portrait of Nadar, c. 1860
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