The great Nadar : the man behind the camera / Adam Begley.

• Nadar aloft -- Félix -- La vie de bohème -- The writing life -- "All is lost! Nadar has learned to draw!" -- On Rue Saint-Nadar -- Nadar vs. Nadar Jeune -- On the boulevard -- High and low -- Siege balloons -- A long good-bye -- Après Nadar.

• A portrait of the fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer discusses his bohemian youth, larger-than-life studio, pioneering exploits as a balloonist, and photography sessions with such famed subjects as Victor Hugo, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas. --Publisher. 
• "A recent French biography begins, "Who doesn't know Nadar?" In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all the legendary figures who thrived in mid-nineteenth-century Paris--a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, George Sand, and Alexandre Dumas--Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern. The first great portrait photographer and a celebrated caricaturist, Nadar was also a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first air mail service. An artist-entrepreneur in the style of Andy Warhol, he knew everyone worth knowing and photographed them all, conferring on posterity psychologically compelling portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, Manet, Delacroix, Daumier, and countless others--a priceless panorama of Parisian celebrity. The Great Nadar is an engrossing, lavishly illustrated biography of an astonishing figure, charming and changeable, a visionary whose outsize talent and canny self-promotion put him way ahead of his time."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Fotografer  (sao)

Äventyr och äventyrare  (sao)

Photographers  -- France -- Biography. (LCSH)

Photographers.  (fast)

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY  -- Adventurers & Explorers. (bisacsh)

HISTORY  -- Modern -- 19th Century. (bisacsh)

Adventure and adventurers  (LCSH)

Photographers  (LCSH)

France.  (fast)

Frankrike 

1800-talet  (sao)

Genre

Biographies.  (fast)

Biography.  (fast)

Nonfiction. 

Personnamn

Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

I Konst, musik, teater och film

Klassifikation

TR140.N24 (LCC)

770.92 (DDC)

Inz Nadar, Félix (kssb/8)