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Eugène Atget ( French:  [adʒɛ] ; 12 February 1857 – 4 August 1927) was a French flâneur [ 1 ] and a pioneer of documentary photography , noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. [ 1 ] Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. [ 2 ] An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his genius was only recognized by a handful of young artists in the last two years of his life, and he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive. [From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Atget ] ***                     [Atget's photos also from Wikipedia] 

Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (6 April 1820 – 23 March 1910), a French photographer , caricaturist , journalist , novelist, and balloonist . Examples of Nadar's photographic portraits are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. Life Nadar was born in April 1820 in Paris (though some sources state Lyon ). He was a caricaturist for Le Charivari in 1848. In 1849 he created the Revue comique and the Petit journal pour rire . He took his first photographs in 1853 and in 1858 became the first person to take aerial photographs . He also pioneered the use of artificial lighting in photography, working in the catacombs of Paris. Around 1863, Nadar built a huge (6000 m 3 ) balloon named Le Géant ("The Giant"), thereby inspiring Jules Verne 's Five Weeks in a Balloon . Although the "Géant" project was initially unsuccessful Nadar was still convinced that the future belonged to heavier-than-air machines. Late...

Photo restoration- Felix Nadar , a photo by MattysFlicks on Flickr. Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) also plays a major part in Barnes' most recent work.

L E N S C R A T C H: Susan Swihart : Los Angeles photographer Susan Swihart has a front row seat as she observes the phenomenon of identical twins.  She has begun a long-term p... * Didn't know her (do now, a little). Found her because of her name.