Nadar

Perrot the Photographer 1854-5

-More so, a sensitive Romantic Artist, rather than just a clown

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy   Surrealism

Photogram 1924

Producing something new with objects.

But not just objects, But abstract shapes, shades, & forms.

Robert Demachy   Pictorialism

Struggle 1904    (from "Camera Work")

Gum printing allowed him to demonstrate that a camera image is only the start for the production of the artwork. Just like a painter- you can alter the scene & make it your own. 

Nadar       Early Photo.

Pantheon Nadar 1854

Famous people coming to pay homage to a bunch of French writers . Caricatures helped him concentrate on facial features that make them indivisuals & indicate personal temperament 

Nadar   Surrealism

Theophile Gautier 1854-5

The man in the picture proclaimed that anyone who wore a collar on his shirt was too bourgeois. By messed up clothes/deep-set eyes cast dark shadows-it portrays artistic insight & personal intensity gained by dismissing etiquette.