With his brother Adrien, this artist produced a series of works centering on mime Charles Deburau, including the statuesque Pierrot Laughing.  
With his brother Adrien, this artist produced a series of works centering on mime Charles Deburau, including the statuesque Pierrot Laughing.  His namesake prize has been won recently by Larry Towell for his No Man's Land collection, while Willy Ronis won that prize in 1981 for Le fil du hasard. In one of his early still-lifes, he depicted two marble heads underneath a wicker basket, 1837s The Artist's Studio. One of his subjects was depicted as "Gismonda" and in medieval dress, Sarah Bernhard, and many of his portraits were published in his namesake Pantheon in both Le Figaro and Laterne magique. He ran a balloon post office service during the Paris Commune, and another balloon trip he took was lampooned by Daumier in a cartoon with a caption reading that he had finally elevated photography to high art. FTP, identify this man born Gaspard- Felix Tournachon, an early French photographer who is, like Prince, often known by just one name.
With his brother Adrien, this artist produced a series of works centering on mime Charles Deburau, including the statuesque Pierrot Laughing.  
{Nadar} (or Gaspard-Felix {Tournachon} before mentioned, or “Felix