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PHOTOGRAPHER

Nadar

1820 - 1910

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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), 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. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadar has received more than 411,553 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Nadar is the most popular photographer, the 293rd most popular biography from France (down from 291st in 2019) and the most popular French Photographer.

Nadar was a photographer and journalist in France during the 1800s. He is most famous for his work capturing the lives of people in Paris during the 1850s.

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  • 410k

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  • 70.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 59

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.86

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Nadar ranks 1 out of 105. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Eadweard Muybridge, Helmut Newton, Alberto Korda, Robert Doisneau, Dora Maar, Vivian Maier, Heinrich Hoffmann, Claude Cahun, and Alfred Stieglitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1820, Nadar ranks 5. Before him are Friedrich Engels, Florence Nightingale, Herbert Spencer, and Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. After him are Anne Brontë, Henri, Count of Chambord, Harriet Tubman, Jenny Lind, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Multatuli, and Heungseon Daewongun. Among people deceased in 1910, Nadar ranks 9. Before him are Mark Twain, Robert Koch, Henry Dunant, William James, Edward VII, and Henri Rousseau. After him are O. Henry, Mily Balakirev, Marius Petipa, Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, and Chulalongkorn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nadar ranks 293 out of 6,011. Before him are Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Robert II of France (972), Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême (1775), Pope Martin IV (1220), and John I of France (1316). After him are Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757), Louis VI of France (1081), Elisabeth of Valois (1545), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), Michel Platini (1955), and Chlothar I (498).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Nadar ranks 1. After him are Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Robert Doisneau (1912), Dora Maar (1907), Claude Cahun (1894), Elliott Erwitt (1928), Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Sabine Weiss (1924), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Marc Riboud (1923), and Sophie Calle (1953).

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