{"id":18604,"date":"2023-05-19T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18604"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:33:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:33:32","slug":"gaspard-felix-tournachon-nadar-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/gaspard-felix-tournachon-nadar-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaspard-F\u00e9lix Tournachon &#8220;Nadar&#8221; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gaspard-F\u00e9lix Tournachon, \u201cNadar\u201d<strong> <\/strong>(French, 1820-1910)\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadar was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, and novelist deeply interested in science and politics. He initially enrolled in medical school, but gave up his studies for journalism. Later, he became a cartoonist that used photography as a tool. Nadar opened his first portrait studio with his brother in 1855 and his first independent studio in 1900.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadar also helped to promote artists and art movements that he hoped would gain popularity during his lifetime. He held the first Impressionist exhibition in his studio in 1874, providing a forum for the art of Paul Cezanne, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/edgar-degas-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edgar Degas<\/a>, \u00c9douard Manet, Claude Monet, Francisco Pizarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame in 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"19024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-685x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-685x900.webp 685w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-228x300.webp 228w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-768x1009.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-1169x1536.webp 1169w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-152x200.webp 152w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small-478x628.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/05\/1995.29.18-small.webp 1460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaspard-F\u00e9lix Tournachon, \u201cNadar\u201d (French, 1820-1910)\u00a0 Nadar was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18604","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19326,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18604\/revisions\/19326"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}