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Nadar’s Pantheon, the 1854 lithograph of French literary figures drawn by Nadar before he became a photographer

Nadar: Portraits, Balloons, the Catacombs and the 1874 Show

Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), a French caricaturist, journalist, portrait photographer and balloonist. For example, he photographed many writers and artists of Paris, tried photography from a … Read more

Roger Fenton, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, 1855, a road in the Crimea strewn with cannonballs, a landmark of 19th century photography

19th Century Photography: War, Empire and Exploration

by Aesthetics of Photography

How 19th century photography went to war and into empire: Fenton, Brady, Watkins, Beato, Bourne and the local photographers who shaped it.

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