An ‘Icarus with replaceable wings” was how the French novelist Jules Verne described his burly compatriot, the photographer-writer-caricaturist-inventor-balloonist Félix Nadar. The comparison was apt, ...

Although Eduardo Cadava’s introduction to this first-ever complete English translation of Quand j’étais photographe positions Nadar’s photography as a form of mourning, the subject himself refuses to ...

It began with a photograph of a strikingly beautiful black woman, taken by Felix Nadar in Paris, in the middle of the 19th century. Looking at it more than 100 years later, Maud Sulter, poet, artist, ...

At the age of 37, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, more commonly known as Nadar, went up in a hot-air balloon for the first time. It was a life-changing experience for the Parisian portrait photographer, ...