Nadar (1820-1910), whose real name was Felix Tournachon, was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in 19th-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over--as a bohemian writer, journalist, romantic utopian, caricaturist, photographer, and scientific innovator. This book catalogues nearly 200 of his finest works, 98 of them in color.
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Nadar (1820-1910), whose real name was Felix Tournachon, was a conspicuous, even astonishing presence in 19th-century France. Engaging and quick-witted, he invented himself over and over--as a bohemian writer, journalist, romantic utopian, caricaturist, photographer, and scientific innovator. This book catalogues nearly 200 of his finest works, 98 of them in color.
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Very Good. Very good, clean, tight condition. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Published in conjunction with the exhibition by the same name held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris from June 7 to September 11, 1994, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from April 14 to July 9, 1995. Jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Cover of book itself has no visible flaws apart for some light handling wear along edges. Binding is secure and inside is clean and unmarked.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Harry N Abrams, New York. 1995. 308 pgs. Illustrated with 200 of his finest works, 98 of them in color. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. New York's Metropolitan Museum pulls out all the stops in this magnificent treatment of the life and work of Felix Tournachon, the photographer self-named, and famous as, Nadar. A lively, energetic, creative machine in mid-nineteenth-century France, Nadar was a bohemian journalist, a caricaturist, a photographer, and a promoter of balloon flight. Never a good businessman, he let his enthusiasms exhaust his means in every enterprise. Although he lived until 1910, his best photographic portraits were made in the mid-1850s. He photographed, in images that possess remarkable presence even today, the notable artistic and literary personalities of midcentury France's romantic and republican heyday, when his temperament was in its glory. In the second empire, he increasingly felt out of place, and in his final projects--photographing the catacombs and sewers of Paris and sights observed from the gondola of his balloon, Geant his alienation from the Paris he had loved was literal as well as symbolic. This profusely illustrated document provides a fascinating picture of French public life at midcentury while delineating one of its foremost personalities.; 11.9 X 9.0 X 1.1 inches; 308 pages.
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Very good in very good jacket. 272p, 4to. A very good copy in a very good jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge of textblock. jacket has a closed tear and a small piece of clear tape along front foredge.
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New/Sealed (remains in publisher's wrap; wrap highly scuffed; may have rubbing, scuffing et to edges, corners, textblock) Cream cloth boards. 272 pgs w/ bw, color illustrations. bw pictorial & tan dustjacket. "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."--WorldCat.
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Nadar. Fine. Illustrated throughout the text, plus 98 plates. 272 pages. 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1995). Fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition that took place at the MET.
