# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nadar
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:18:08.425Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nadar"
name: "Nadar"
slug: "nadar"
description: "He shot Paris from a hot-air balloon in 1858 — the first aerial photographs ever made — and on the ground built a portrait studio where the 19th century's sharpest faces sat still for his lens."
tagline: "French photographer and balloonist (1820–1910)"
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country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1820-04-06"
deathDate: "1910-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was born 5 April 1820 and worked under the name Nadar as a caricaturist, journalist, and novelist before the camera took over. In 1858 he lifted a camera into a balloon and made the first aerial photographs, proving both his technical nerve and his belief in heavier-than-air flight years before it arrived. Back in the studio he shot portraits that now anchor the great national photography collections — faces of his century caught with clarity that outlasted the sitters. His son Paul Nadar kept the studio running after he died on 20 March 1910.