In one portrait by this photographer, bright light shines from an unseen window from above onto the subject's white hair and beard, giving him the appearance of glowing as that white-clad man lies on white pillows; that photo is of Victor Hugo on his death-bed.
The mummy-like face of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is the first documented photo by this artist, who in the memoir, When I Was a Photographer, described the use of magnesium flares for light and mannequins to represent workers in a series of experimental photos of the Paris catacombs in 1861 and later repeated in the sewers in 1864. In one portrait by this photographer, bright light shines from an unseen window from above onto the subject's white hair and beard, giving him the appearance of glowing as that white-clad man lies on white pillows; that photo is of Victor Hugo on his death-bed. Using a device anchored to the Arc de Triomphe, this photographer produced the first aerial photographs and this photographer produced a number of self-portraits in the gondola of that device, called Le Geant. For 10 points, caricatured in a Daumier cartoon Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art, this is what French balloonist and photographer, best known for his portraits of French cultural figures, like George Sand?  
The mummy-like face of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore is the first documented photo by this artist, who in the memoir, When I Was a Photographer, described the use of magnesium flares for light and mannequins to represent workers in a series of experimental photos of the Paris catacombs in 1861 and later repeated in the sewers in 1864.
Felix Nadar [or Gaspard-Felix Tournachon] 