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Nadar. / 48.860; 2.396. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910 [1] ), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. [2]
Sarah Bernhardt (French: [saʁa bɛʁnɑʁt]; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
Title. Sarah Bernhardt. Description. English: Sarah Bernhardt was about twenty when she posed for Nadar and had barely begun her long and phenomenally successful career. Nadar's photograph was probably the first of innumerable images by painters, photographers, sculptors, and graphic artists. At a time when Nadar was preoccupied with ballooning ...
0-22-409815-2. Levels of Life is a 2013 memoir by English author Julian Barnes, dedicated to his wife Pat Kavanagh, a literary agent who died in 2008. [1] The book comprises three essays: [1] The Sin of Height: The first essay explores Anglo-French ballooning in the 19th century, concentrating on photographer and inventor Gaspard-Félix ...
“Sarah Bernhardt was more than a famous actress. She was one of the first celebrities. She was a businesswoman, a fashion icon, a sculptor, theater director, a visionary, a courtesan.
Aug. 9—Long before the "Barbie" movie had audiences discussing the struggles of being a woman, Sarah Bernhardt was bringing that topic to center stage in 1899. "Bernhardt/Hamlet," which opens ...
English: Nadar (1820-1910); French actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) around 1864 (8 5/16 x 6 3/8 in). Español: La actriz francesa Sarah Bernhardt , por Nadar , en torno a 1864. Français : Actrice francaise Sarah Bernhardt , par Nadar , vers 1864.
Original – Sarah Bernhardt, par Nadar, 1864 Reason 150 old picture of a famous personality, by a famous photographer. Already FP on Commons. Articles in which this image appears Sarah Bernhardt, Nadar (photographer) FP category for this image Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/People Creator picture by Nadar (1820-1910), uploaded, restored and ...