Nadar

American  

[nah-dahr, na-dar] / nɑˈdɑr, naˈdær /

noun

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

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Nadar British  

/ nadar /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Monsieur Nadar being, perhaps, the most zealous advocate of this machine, we draw our information chiefly from his writings.

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