Title Statements
- Full title :Nadar / Maria Morris Hambourg, Françoise Heilbrun, Philippe Néagu ; with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas [and others].
Summary
Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George Sand, Delacroix. Nadar's legendary name has been attached not only to his original photographs but to reprints, copies and a great deal of studio work. For that reason, this volume exactingly reproduces some one hundred photographs from the years 1854-60, the period of his earliest and finest photography, allowing viewers to become familiar with the subtle light and balanced, velvety tones that distinguish Nadar's original work. Accompanying the photographs are essays that shed new light on the many facets of Nadar
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- Publication Date:©1995.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by H.N. Abrams, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1995.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:ocn624312234
- LC Classification:TR681.F3
- Dewey Decimal:779/.2/092
Table of Contents
A portrait of Nadar / Maria Morris Hambourg -- Nadar and the art of portrait photography / Françoise Heilbrun -- Nadar and the artistic life of his time / Philippe Néagu -- Sorting out Nadar / Ulrich Keller -- Beyond the portrait, beyond the artist / Sylvie Aubenas -- When I was a photographer : the anatomy of a myth / André Rouillé -- The Nadar studio, dispersed and recovered / André Jammes.
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