Paul Nadar

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Paul Nadar

Paul Nadar , real name Paul Tournachon , (born February 8, 1856 in Paris , † September 1, 1939 ibid) was a French photographer and son of the photographer Nadar . He became known as a society photographer during the Belle Époque in Paris.

Life

Paul Nadar was born in 1856 as the only son of Félix Tournachon (better known as Nadar ) and his wife Ernestine. From 1880 to 1885 and from 1895 he took over his father's studio. He maintained a more conventional style, which in 1885 led to an estrangement between father and son. Paul Nadar concentrated on the bourgeois and aristocratic audience of the Belle Époque and tried to meet their tastes.

In 1890 he undertook a trip along the old Silk Road that led him to Turkestan . After opening a photography business as an agent for Eastman Kodak in 1893 , he married Marie Degrandi, an actress at the Paris Opéra-Comique , in 1894 .

Paul Nadar received permission from his father to continue using the name Atelier Nadar . His estate was sold to the French state together with that of his father in 1950, around 60,000 negatives went to the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites (today Center des monuments nationaux ), prints and other documents are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Photographs

Paul Nadar's audience came from the social classes that Marcel Proust frequented before he retired to write the research . Many of the figures in Proust's work were clearly recognizable to contemporaries, while others bore the characteristics of several people. It is known that Proust collected photographs of his friends and acquaintances and used them while writing to recall details.

  • Charles Haas (Swann)

  • Marie de Benardaky (Gilberte)

  • Gabriel Hanotaux (Norpois)

  • Robert de Monttesquiou (Charlus)

  • Countess Laure de Chevigné (Duchess of Guermantes)

  • Boniface de Castellane (Saint-Loup)

  • Louis de Turenne (Bréauté)

  • Gaston de Galliffet (General de Froberville)

  • Anatole France (Bergotte)

  • Gabriel Fauré (Vinteuil)

  • Réjane (Berma)

  • Sarah Bernhardt (Berma)

literature

  • William Howard Adams: Proust's characters and their role models. With photos by Paul Nadar. Insel paperback, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 2000.
  • Anne-Marie Bernard, Pierre-Jean Rémy: Le Monde de Proust, vu par Paul Nadar. Patrimoine, Paris 1999, ISBN 2858223076 .
  • Claude Malécot, Anne-Marie Bernard: L'odyssée de Paul Nadar au Turkestan 1890. Patrimoine, Paris 2007, ISBN 2858228698 .

Web links

Commons : Paul Nadar  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Paul Nadar  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Howard Adams: Proust's characters and their role models. P. 32
personal data
SURNAME Nadar, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tournachon, Paul (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French professional photographer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1939
Place of death Paris