UIG’s Aerial Photography Collection
Gaspard-Felix Tournachon is widely believed to be the first producer of aerial photography. Tournachon, a balloonist, took images mainly of Paris, France in the late 1850’s. The earliest surviving aerial photograph, however, was one created in 1860. James Wallace Black and Samuel Archer King’s aerial photograph was titled “Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It”. […]
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