Artist
G Félix T Nadar
(Frankrike, 1820 - 1910)
Artist
Paul Nadar
(Frankrike, 1856 - 1939)
Alternate Title
- Bellême (Orne) 2 July, 1886. (From an altitude of 1100 metres)
Date1886/ca 1935
DimensionsBildmått: 38,7 × 48,8 cm
Pappersmått: 49 × 58 × 0,4 cm
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 1965
Object NumberFM 1965 001 1051
CollectionsHelmer Bäckströms fotografisamling
The artwork is not on display
About the artwork
When Félix Nadar began taking pictures of Paris from a balloon in 1856, this was an entirely new idea. Nadar, who was an inventor, writer and newly-fledged photographer, wanted to make history. He felt that the sublime views from a balloon deserved to be photographed and therefore created an aerial laboratory in the balloon gondola. Initially, he had developers and a darkroom in the actual gondola, but then went on to use a new method with glass plates. Today, in the age of aviation and drones, aerial motifs are not unusual, but they are still as fascinating. In the late 1800s, Nadar’s pictures provided breath-taking new perspectives on the city, with its gridwork of streets, lines and graphic patterns.
Description
Frankrike. Belléme (Orne) 2 juli 1886. (Från 1100 m höjd).
Signatures, inscriptions and marks
Fotografsignatur fram på kartongen, Text på baksidan., Fotografstämpel på baksidan
Selected exhibition history
Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Fynden från Vitön. Nils Strindbergs fotografier från Andrée-expeditionen (2000)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm