Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)

Nadar (1820, 1910) was a pioneering French photographer, caricaturist, and writer who became one of the most celebrated portraitists of 19th-century Paris, capturing luminaries such as Sarah Bernhardt, Charles Baudelaire, and Jules Verne. He was the first photographer to take aerial photographs from a balloon and was among the earliest to use artificial electric lighting in photography. His studio on the Boulevard des Capucines hosted the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, cementing his place at the intersection of art and modernity.