end notes
The adventures of nadar
​[1] Newspaper publisher Alphonse Karr, quoted in Richard Holmes, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Penguin, London 1985 at 203; Helmut Gernsheim, Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960, Dover Publications Inc, New York, 1991 at 64.
[2} Holmes (Footsteps), op cit at 209.
[3] Félix Nadar, When I Was a Photographer (Transl E Cadava, L Theodoratou), The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass 2015, at 62.
[4] Philippe Willems, "Between Panoramic and Sequential: Nadar and the Serial Image", Nineteenth-Century Worldwide, accessed May 2016 http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn12/willems-nadar-and-the-serial-image See also entry for Félix Nadar in Lambiek Comiclopedia at https://www.lambiek.net/artists/n/nadar.htm
[5] Holmes (Footsteps), op cit at 203.
[6] Nadar, op cit at 174.
[9] Ross King, The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, Pimlico, London, 2007, at 106.
[10] Nadar, op cit at xix.
[11] Holmes (Footsteps), op cit at 204.
[12] Philippe Willems, op cit.
[14] Nadar, op cit at 57-9.
[15] Nadar, op cit at 59.
[16] Richard Holmes, Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air, William Collins, London, 2013 at 158ff.
[18] Nadar, op cit at 67. As with most of his inventions, Nadar was quick to file a patent for the new technology, one of dozens that he would file over his career.
[18A] The oldest surviving aerial photograph was an 1860 image taken by JW Black from 2000 feet above Boston http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-picture-of-boston-circa-1860-is-the-worlds-oldest-surviving-aerial-photo-14756301/
[19] Nadar, op cit at 29-30.
[21] He would later promote this in his book Le Droit au Vol (The Right to Flight).
[22] King, op cit at 110ff.
[24] Holmes (Upwards) at 164.
[25] King, op cit at 110.
[27] Nadar, cited in Rebecca Maksel, "Flight of the Giant", Air and Space Magazine, 4 October 2013 [accessed at http://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/flight-of-the-giant-586517/?no-ist
[28] It appears that crowd control barriers are still known in both Belgian Dutch and Belgian French as "Nadar barriers".
[29] Mémoires du Géant (1864).
[30] Holmes (Upwards), op cit at 179.
[31] Roger Cicala, "The Heights and Depths of Nadar", lensrentals.com blog
http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2014/03/the-heights-and-depths-of-nadar-tldr-version/
[33] Cicala, op cit.
[35] The whole episode of the Paris siege is memorably described in Holmes (Upwards), op cit at 251ff; see also Cicala, op cit.
[36] A similar proposal had also been made by the balloonist Eugène Godard.
[37] Some balloons also carried passengers in addition to the cargo of mail, most notably Léon Gambetta, the Minister for War in the new government.
[38] Holmes (Upwards), op cit at 259, 273.
[39] No balloon ever succeeded in flying back into Paris: Holmes (Upwards), op cit at 294.
[40] Nadar, op cit at 135-6.
[41] Nadar, op cit at 138.
[42] Sue Roe, The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Chatto & Windus, London, 2006, at 117ff.
[43] Holmes (Falling Upwards) at 295.
[44] Helmut Gernsheim, Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960, Dover Publications Inc, New York, 1991, at 64.
[45] Contrary to many reports, it was not called the First impressionist Exhibition.
[46] Roe, op cit at 126.
[48] Asa Briggs and Peter Burke, A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, Polity, 2009, at 157.
​© Philip McCouat 2016