Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (born 1820)

Nadar

French photographer and balloonist (1820–1910)

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic…