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

Man Ray portrayed the artists and writers of Paris in the 1920s and ’30s as indelibly as Nadar did their 19th-century predecessors.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 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

Interesting details of the ascent of the Nadar balloon, said to have been narrated by Prince Wittgenstein, are given by the France.

From Up in the Clouds Balloon Voyages by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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