nadar

French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, and balloonist (1820-1910)

Gaspard-FĂ©lix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858 he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

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