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Paris La Moderne

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By Francesca Lungarotti There are views of the city of Paris that may be absolutely unusual to some.  Paris is not only the city that culminates the artistic and architectural evolution at the gates of the 20th century with the Eiffel Tower but also a city that launched itself towards a dynamic future. The 20th century […]

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UIG’s Aerial Photography Collection

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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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