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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In one, photography pioneer Félix Nadar pictured an intersex person from the neck down.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

In June and July 2022 the NYU group, led by cardiac surgeon Nadar Moazami, transplanted two genetically modified pig hearts into deceased recipients.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

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

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

Yet when the Nadar collection was dispersed, June, 1909, in Paris, his aquarelles went for a few francs.

From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James

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