Nadar

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Na·dar

 (nä-där′) Originally Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. 1820-1910.
French photographer known for his aerial views of Paris and his portraits of figures in the arts, including Édouard Manet and Charles Baudelaire.
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Nadar

(French nadar)
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(Biography) real name Gaspard Félix Tournachon. 1820–1910, French photographer, writer, and caricaturist: noted for his portrait photographs of artists and writers and for taking the first aerial photographs (1858)
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On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shrivelled, and who were Umslopogaas and Nada, of whom he had let fall some words.
And because the history of Nada the Lily and of those with whom her life was intertwined moved him strangely, and in many ways, he has done more, he has printed it that others may judge of it.
traicao de Gagoal a feiticeira achadora, nada poderia levar, e
Elsewhere in the Kunsthaus, extensive loans from European collections provided a further context, national and international, for Nadas's work.
What interests Nadas is not so much the ups and downs of the love affair between a Frenchman and a German woman but their respective natures as expressed by their language.
Nada's Italy was started by Italian-born Nada Vergili, an expat from Florence who moved to the USA and developed the business in 2004 with a strong passion for sharing her culture with the American public.