Nadar carries out the first aerial photography…
August 1858 CE
Nadar was born in April 1820 in Paris (though some sources state Lyon).
His father, Victor Tournachon, was a printer and bookseller.
After his father's death, Nadar decided to quit his medical studies for economic reasons.
Nadar had started working as a caricaturist and novelist for various newspapers.
He has fallen in with the Parisian bohemian group of Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire and Théodore de Banville.
His friends picked a nickname for him: Tournadar, which will later become Nadar.
His work was published in Le Charivari for the first time in 1848. In 1849, he founded the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire.
From work as a caricaturist, he has moved on to photography, particularly portraits.
He had opened his photography studio in rue Saint Lazare in 1854.
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