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Nadar

American

[nah-dahr, na-dar] / nɑˈdɑr, naˈdær /

noun

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, 1820–1910, French journalist and pioneer of aerial photography.

Nadar British

/ nadar /

noun

real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon . 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)

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I started this novel at Imperial Beach, where we couldn’t go into the water because of the sewage problem and the signs warning No Nadar!

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

He’s also designed the forthcoming Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, a vast contemporary art museum to be built in Delhi.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023

It has become a prized possession for every member of the Shiv Nadar community.

From Scientific American ● May 20, 2023

The book was published in Paris, London and Rome in 1956 and won the Nadar Prize the following year.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

Cézanne exhibited in 1874 with Manet and the rest at the impressionists' salon, held at the studio of Nadar the photographer.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

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