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[Eugène] Bethmont, ministre justice 1848

Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]

Date: negative 1855–1859; print 1861–1869
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

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Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]

French Photographer · 1820–1910

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> The sun is only the practitioner, M[r]. Nadar is the artist who wants to give him some work. So wrote a critic of Gaspard Félix Tournachon in 1859. Tournachon's nickname, Nadar, derived from youthful slang, but became his professional signature and the name by which he is best known today. Poor but talented, Nadar began by scratching out a living as a freelance writer and caricaturist. His writi

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