Nadar Maria Morris Hambourg, Françoise Heilbrun, Philippe Néagu ; with contributions by Sylvie Aubenas [and others]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hambourg, Maria Morris

Contributor:

Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910

Heilbrun, Françoise

Néagu, Philippe

Musée d'Orsay

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910--Exhibitions.

Nadar, Félix.

Nadar, Félix, 1820-1910.

Celebrities--France--Portraits--Exhibitions.

Celebrities.

Portrait photography--France--Exhibitions.

Portrait photography.

Celebrities--Portraits.

France.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) illustrations

Distribution:

Distributed by H.N. Abrams [1995]

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1995]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

Nadar, whose real name was Felix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in nineteenth-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over as a bohemian writer, a journalist, a romantic utopian, a caricaturist, a portrait photographer, a balloonist, an entrepreneur, a prophet of aeronautics. The name "Nadar" was on everyone's lips. Today, it is Nadar's photography that is remembered. His sitters, who were often his friends, included the great men and women of his time: Dumas, Rossini, Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Daumier, Berlioz, George Sand, Delacroix. Nadar's legendary name has been attached not only to his original photographs but to reprints, copies and a great deal of studio work. For that reason, this volume exactingly reproduces some one hundred photographs from the years 1854-60, the period of his earliest and finest photography, allowing viewers to become familiar with the subtle light and balanced, velvety tones that distinguish Nadar's original work. Accompanying the photographs are essays that shed new light on the many facets of Nadar

Contents:

A portrait of Nadar / Maria Morris Hambourg

Nadar and the art of portrait photography / Françoise Heilbrun

Nadar and the artistic life of his time / Philippe Néagu

Sorting out Nadar / Ulrich Keller

Beyond the portrait, beyond the artist / Sylvie Aubenas

When I was a photographer : the anatomy of a myth / André Rouillé

The Nadar studio, dispersed and recovered / André Jammes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p-257-263) and index

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Hambourg, Maria Morris. Nadar

OCLC:

624312234