Nadar (photographer)

Nadar was the pseudonym of GaspardFlix Tournachon , a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist .

Nadar was born in April 1820 in Paris . His father, Victor Tournachon, was a printer and bookseller. After his fathers death, Nadar decided to quit his medical studies for economic reasons. Nadar started working as a caricaturist and novelist for various newspapers. He fell in with the Parisian bohemian group of Grard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire and Thodore de Banville. His friends picked a nickname for him Tournadar, which later became Nadar. His work was published in Le Charivari for the first time in 1848. In 1849, he founded the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire.

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