Nadar: Inventing Paris, from the depths to the sky

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On the occasion of the Photographie’s bicentennial, spotlighting a little-known facet of the famous photographer and portraitist Nadar: the prolific inventor who documented Paris in every way. Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar (1820-1910), filed major patents: aerial photography in 1858, electric lighting for photography in 1861, applied in 1862 in the Catacombs. His shots offered a faithful representation of a site accessible only to a few. In 1868, he produced the first photographs…