The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Self-portrait lying on a draped sofa with a cane and a hat

Adrien Tournachon, around 1858

Calling-card type print on albumen paper from a collodion glass negative, 5.9 × 9.4 cm.
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 84.XM.436.47
Running an impressive studio on Boulevard des Italiens, Adrien is posing as an elegant Parisian on whom fortune has smiled. He is at the summit of his photographic career.