Category: Livres anglais et trangers,Biographies & Memoirs,Arts & Literature
The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera Details
A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer.A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris—a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas—Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern.The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one of the original celebrity artist-entrepreneurs. A kind of 19th-century Andy Warhol, he knew everyone worth knowing and photographed them all, conferring on posterity psychologically compelling portraits of Manet, Sarah Bernhardt, Delacroix, Daumier and countless others—a priceless panorama of Parisian celebrity. Born Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, he adopted the pseudonym Nadar as a young bohemian, when he was a budding writer and cartoonist. Later he affixed the name Nadar to the façade of his opulent photographic studio in giant script, the illuminated letters ten feet tall, the whole sign fifty feet long, a garish red beacon on the boulevard. Nadar became known to all of Europe and even across the Atlantic when he launched "The Giant," a gas balloon the size of a twelve-story building, the largest of its time. With his daring exploits aboard his humongous balloon (including a catastrophic crash that made headlines around the world), he gave his friend Jules Verne the model for one of his most dynamic heroes. The Great Nadar is a brilliant, lavishly illustrated biography of a larger-than-life figure, a visionary whose outsized talent and canny self-promotion put him way ahead of his time.
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Une biographie passionnante de Felix Nadar (1820-1910), un aventurier irrpressible, qui (entre autres choses) a t le pionnier de la photographie de portrait, ainsi que de la montgolfire, de la caricature, et on peut pas savoir quoi d'autre. (Nadar tait en ralit un pseudonyme, mais c'est ainsi qu'il tait connu, Jules Verne rarrang les lettres pour former le nom Ardan, hros de "De la Terre la Lune")Seule dception: le format 13x23 cm du livre est beaucoup trop petit pour permettre une reproduction adquate des nombreuses photographies et dessins - et mme alors, les diteurs les ont souvent enferms dans de petits emplacements dans le texte, tous sans lgende.
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