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| 1. |  | Honoré Daumier 1862, 25 May Nadar Elevating Photography to the Hieght of Art [Nadar elevant la Photographie a la hauteur de l'Art] Lithograph George Eastman Museum Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer (GEH NEG: 20032) |
| 2. |  | Nadar 1865 (ca, taken) 1890s (print) [Nadar with His Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon] Gelatin silver print, from glass negative 9 x 7.8 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 ins) (image) 23 x 19.9 cm (9 1/16 x 7 13/16 ins) (mount) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.313 |
| 3. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Nadar Photograph 14.2 x 9.5 cm Source requested |
| 4. |  | Nadar 1863 (ca) Le Géant, the gondola of Nadar's balloon Albumen print 9,5 x 12,5 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Photography 19th-21st Century (1 June 2011) Lot: 4127 |
| 5. |  | Nadar 1860s [Nadar in his balloon] Carte de visite Private collection http://soyouthinkyoucansee.tumblr.com/post/17143764865/nadar-high-in-the-sky-and-no-limits (Accessed: 21 May 2012) The whereabouts of this carte de visite is unclear and further details are requested. |
| 6. |  | Nadar 1858 Aerial view of Paris United States Geological Service Further details on this image are requested. |
| 7. |  | Nadar 1863, 15 October M. Nadar, a celebrated Parisian photographer Journal page Google Books The Photographic Journal being the Journal of the Photographic Society, 15 October 1863, No.138, p.383 M. Nadar, a celebrated Parisian photographer, has distinguished himself as an aeronaut, and recently made an ascent, with about a dozen friends, in the largest balloon ever made. His balloon, called ' Le Géant,' is thus described in a daily contemporary: "The design of M. Nadar is to render aerial voyaging not only instructive, but pleasant; so he has constructed reading- and billiard-rooms, and a photographic studio, in addition to the usual living apartments. The car which contains these is two-storied, the upper floor being a terrace, surrounded by a strong railing, or garde-fous (absit omen !), from which, I presume, our travellers are to fish for birds, for M. Nadar is amply supplied with fishing tackle, which must either be intended for aerial sport, else as provision against their ' falling in the sea.'" |
| 8. |  | Nadar 1866, 9 June The various balloon experiments of M. Nadar… Magazine page Google Books In the "Foreign Notes" section of Every Saturday, Vol.I, No.23, June 9, 1866, p.643. The various balloon experiments of M. Nader, the famous Parisian photographer, have resulted in a small volume, which the English translator styles, "The Right to Fly." M. Nader considers that all existing styles of locomotion will be deemed obsolete in a few years, when a more perfect system of aerostation shall have been discovered. |
| 9. |  | Unidentified photographer 1945, 23 January Marine Sargeant Grace L. Wyman practices aerial photography at the United States Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina. Gelatin silver print National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 535771] |
| 10. |  | Bob Reeve 1937 Brad Washburn and the Fairchild 71 monoplane, Valdez, Alaska, 1937, holding his 50 pond Fairchild K-6 camera. He is actually roped to the far side of the cabin to keep him from falling out in turbulent air Gelatin silver print Panopticon Gallery |
| 11. |  | James Wallace Black & Samuel A. King 1860, 16 August Untitled (cracked emulsion - Aerial photograph of Providence Rhode Island from a balloon) Albumen silver print 0 x 7 3/4 ins (25.0 x 19.7 cm) MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Gift of Warner Communications, Inc., MoMA Number: 1113.1979 |
| 12. |  | James Wallace Black 1860, 13 October Aerial view of Boston Albumen print, from glass negative 10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in (25.6 x 20.2 cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981 (1981.1229.4) Considered to be the earliest surviving aerial photograph. Comments from the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (The Metropolitan Museum of Art): Two years after the French photographer Nadar conducted his earliest experiments in balloon flight, the Boston photographer James Wallace Black ascended over the city to make the first successful aerial photographs in America. He flew on Samuel King's hot-air balloon, the "Queen of the Air," and exposed several glass-plate negatives, including this extraordinary, if imperfect, view as much lunar landscape as "Beantown." Almost immediately, aerial photography would be put to use by the Union Army. By 1862, President Abraham Lincoln appointed a civilian Balloon Corps to serve under the Bureau of Topographical Engineers to spy from the skies on Confederate troops during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. [Accessed: 5 April 2010] |
| 13. |  | James Wallace Black 1860 (ca) Aerial View of Boston Lee Gallery Courtesy of Lee Gallery (X1083) |
| 14. |  | James Wallace Black 1860 Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Albumen silver print, from glass negative 18.5 x 16.7 cm (7 5/16 x 6 9/16 ins) (irregularly trimmed) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.87 Comments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. After Southworth and Hawes, the partnership of John Whipple and James Black was the most important in Boston. Black's career began humbly in 1845 as chief plate polisher in two local daguerreian studios. By 1852 he was apprenticed to Whipple, and within four years he was a partner in the firm. Between 1857 and 1860, Black managed the business single-handedly, while Whipple completed a three-year scientific exploration of celestial bodies at the Harvard College Observatory. Less interested in astronomy or abstract science, Black left Whipple in 1859 to focus the camera on his own planet. Best known for his photographs of Boston after the devastating fire of 1872, Black launched his solo career in 1860 with the production of a series of aerial photographs taken from Samuel King's hot-air balloon the "Queen of the Air." Black's views of Boston were the first aerial photographs made in America; two years earlier the Frenchman Nadar had made history making similar views of Paris. Black's photographs caught the attention of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a poet and professor of medicine at Harvard, who gave this photograph its title. In July 1863, Holmes wrote in the "Atlantic Monthly": "Boston, as the eagle and wild goose see it, is a very different object from the same place as the solid citizen looks up at its eaves and chimneys. The Old South [Church] and Trinity Church [left center and lower right] are two landmarks not to be mistaken. Washington Street [bottom] slants across the picture as a narrow cleft. Milk Street [left center] winds as if the old cowpath which gave it a name had been followed by the builders of its commercial palaces. Windows, chimneys, and skylights attract the eye in the central parts of the view, exquisitely defined, bewildering in numbers…. As a first attempt [at aerial photography] it is on the whole a remarkable success; but its greatest interest is in showing what we may hope to see accomplished in the same direction." Only two years later the Union Army would use balloon photography to spy on Confederate troops during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia. |
| 15. |  | James Wallace Black 1860 Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It Albumen print Boston Public Library, Print Department File name: 05_01_000036 Description: Earliest extant aerial photograph taken in the United States from Samuel A. King's balloon while tethered over Boston Common. |
| 16. |  | James Wallace Black 1860 Aerial view of Providence, Rhode Island Albumen print 26.2 x 19.6 cm (10 5/16 x 7 11/16 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Robert O. Dougan Collection, gift of WarnerCommunications, Inc., Object Number: x1979-116 |
| 17. |  | Unidentified photographer 1880 (ca) Grenoble vue d'un ballon Albumen print 16.8 x 12 cm Tajan Vente 9930, Lot 75 |
| 18. |  | George R. Lawrence 1906, 28 May Photograph of San Francisco in ruins from Lawrence Captive Airship, 2000 feet above San Francisco Bay overlooking water front. Sunset over Golden [Gat]e Gelatin silver print Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-07823 DLC |
| 19. |  | Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe 1906, September Stonehenge (oblique view) Gelatin silver print The Society of Antiquaries English Heritage / Society of Antiquaries Lieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe of the Royal Engineers' Balloon Section (Aldershot) had been stationed since 15 September at Sappers' Balloon Section at Bulford Camp on Salisbury Plain and this photograph was taken during a military exercise from a tethered hydrogen balloon probably in late September. Three photographs were taken and they were displayed at the Society of Antiquaries on 6th December 1906 and published in Archaeologia a journal of the London Society of Antiquaries (1907). This is considered to be one of the first sets of aerial photographs of an archaeological site taken from a balloon. In June 1899 aerial photographs were taken of the remains at Ostia in Italy. Col. J.E. Capper "Photographs of Stonehenge, as seen from a War Balloon". Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, volume 60 (1907) no.2: 571. |
| 20. |  | Eduard Spelterini 1904, 21 November Pyramids of Gizah, Egypt. From left to right: Menkaure, Kephren, Cheops. Photographed from a balloon from about 600 metres above ground Gelatin silver print Creative Commons - Wikipedia E. Spelterini _ber den Wolken / Par dessus les nuages (Zurich: Brunner & Co, 1928), p. 88. |
| 21. |  | Eduard Spelterini 1912, 29 August Aerial view of an alpine lake and mountains in Switzerland: Glattalpsee on Glattalp, canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Gelatin silver print Creative Commons - Wikipedia Aerial view of an alpine lake and mountains in Switzerland: Glattalpsee on Glattalp, canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. Ortstock or Silberstock in the center, to its left Höch Turm, to its right Jõgernstöcke, photographed from a balloon. View towards the east. E. Spelterini Über den Wolken / Par dessus les nuages (Zurich: Brunner & Co, 1928), p. 17. |
| 22. |  | Unidentified photographer 1917, 10 February Festieux, Alt: 2900 (113-089) Gelatin silver print 17.4 x 23 cm AnamorFose Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun. |
| 23. |  | Unidentified photographer 1917, 10 February Sainte-Croix, Alt: 2700 (124-060) Gelatin silver print 17.4 x 23 cm AnamorFose Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun. |
| 24. |  | Unidentified photographer 1916, 31 July Ouest des Cavaliers de Courcy, Alt: 2000 (291-855) Gelatin silver print 17.4 x 23 cm AnamorFose Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun. |
| 25. |  | Unidentified photographer 1917, 14 February Route de Reims à pont Gérard, Alt: 3800 (320-913) Gelatin silver print 17.4 x 23 cm AnamorFose Aerial photograph taken by the French Army during WW1 in the vicinity of Verdun. |
| 26. |  | Unidentified photographer 1914-1918 Aerial bombing raids over Kirchland, Germany Gelatin silver print 5 x 7 in Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 27. |  | Unidentified photographer 1918, March - November (ca) Aerial view of ruins of Vaux, France Gelatin silver print National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 512862] |
| 28. |  | Unknown (French) 1914-1918 Aerial reconnaissance photographs Gelatin silver print, composite Northern Light Gallery |
| 29. |  | Unidentified photographer 1918, 26 January Photographed from a German Aeroplane: Tanks at Cambrai Magazine illustration The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100550181 "Photographed from a German Aeroplane: Tanks at Cambrai." Photograph supplied by Topical. Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, January 26, 1918; pg. 115; Issue 4110. An enemy view of British Tanks in action during the Battle of Cambrai. The battle took place in November 1917 and it was the first time Tanks had operated in such force. |
| 30. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1917, 16 June Aerial reconnaissance photograph of Passchendaele Book illustration, from Gelatin silver print Source requested Source: Col. Terrence J. Finnegan, USAF (Ret.) Shooting the Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front--World War I (Washington, DC: National Defense Intelligence College, 2006) |
| 31. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1917, 5 December Aerial reconnaissance photograph of Passchendaele Book illustration, from Gelatin silver print Source requested Source: Col. Terrence J. Finnegan, USAF (Ret.) Shooting the Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front--World War I (Washington, DC: National Defense Intelligence College, 2006) |
| 32. |  | Charles E. Brown 1920-1930 Jérusalem, vue d'avion Gelatin silver print 30.5 x 37.5 cm Piasa Photographies et livres de photographies, 1 February 2013, Lot 85 |
| 33. |  | Unidentified photographer 1923, 2 June Undoing the work of Vesuvius eighteen centuries ago: Pompeii as it is to-day - From the Air Magazine illustration, rearranged The Courtauld Institute of Art Copyright: Illustrated London News Ltd. All rights reserved, Gale Document Number: HN3100254007 "Undoing the Work of Vesuvius Eighteen Centuries Ago: Pompeii as It is To-Day From the Air." Illustrated London News (London, England), Saturday, June 02, 1923; pg. 960-961; Issue [4389]. [Two images have been merged, colour-corrected and the explanatory key removed.] |
| 34. |  | Walter Hahn 1930s Aerial view of Dresden Gelatin silver print 46 x 59 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions (88 / 4204) |
| 35. |  | Unidentified photographer n.d. Aerial photograph of Manhattan Gelatin silver print National Archive of the Netherlands / Nationaal Archief Spaarnestad Photo, SFA001015856 Aerial photograph of Manhattan, New York (10.000 feet). The street pattern is based on the (in those days) revolutionary parcel pattern of the Dutch municipality Beemster polder. |
| 36. |  | Unidentified photographer 1939-1945 Aerial photograph of bombing raid over Wangerooge in the North Sea. Gelatin silver print National Archives The National Archives, Kew - AIR 14/3647 |
| 37. |  | Flying Officer Michael Suckling (RAF) 1941, 21 May Aerial reconnaissance photograph showing the Bismark in a Norwegian fjord Photograph Creative Commons - Wikipedia Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg, 1980, Battleship Bismarck, A Survivor's Story, (Annapolis: United States Naval Institute Press), p. 85 |
| 38. |  | Margaret Bourke-White 1945 Aerial view of the total destruction from the repeated US and RAF bombing raids on the city, Mainz, Germany Gelatin silver print 13 1/2 x 10 5/8 ins Howard Greenberg Gallery Inventory no: 0083682 |
| 39. |  | Unidentified photographer 1944, 25 August Auschwitz I (Main Camp) - Oswiecim, Poland Gelatin silver print National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 305902] |
| 40. |  | Unidentified photographer 1945, August View of Hiroshima city before the bombing 10 x 10 ins (255 x 255 mm) Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 41. |  | Unidentified photographer 1945, August View of Hiroshima city after the bombing 10 x 10 ins (255 x 255 mm) Private collection of Brad Feuerhelm |
| 42. |  | Unidentified photographer 1955 Aerial photograph of Heathrow Airport Gelatin silver print National Archives Catalogue Reference: BT 219/115, No known copyright restrictions. Available on flickr (January 2011). Nora Hague (Facebook, 18 March 2019 "That's the photograph hanging on the wall behind Gen. Jack D. Ripper's desk in Dr. Strangelove." Alan Griffiths (18 March 2019) The images are similar but not identical. |
| 43. |  | Unidentified photographer 1956, 7 May Aerial photograph of Aberdeen from the records of Naval Intelligence (UK Beach Intelligence) on a survey of Girdle Ness to Rattray Head. Gelatin silver print National Archives Catalogue Reference: ADM 326/1279, No known copyright restrictions. Available on flickr (January 2011). |
| 44. |  | Unidentified photographer 1962, 1 November Aerial Photograph of Medium Range Ballistic Missile Launch Site Two at San Cristobal Gelatin silver print National Archives and Records Administration [ARC Identifier: 193933] |
| 45. |  | U.S. State Department 2003, 5 February Terrorist Poison and Explosives Factory, Khurnal - Feb 2002. US State Department photo from Colin Powell's United Nations presentation. Powerpoint presentation slide Source requested |
| 46. |  | U.S. State Department 2003, 5 February Sanitization of Ammunition Deport at Taji - 10 Nov 2002 and 22 Dec 2002. US State Department photo from Colin Powell's United Nations presentation. Powerpoint presentation slide Source requested |
| 47. |  | Bradford Washburn 1938 Valdez, Alaska Gelatin silver print Decaneas Archive Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive |
| 48. |  | Bradford Washburn 1928 A glacier turns a corner, Bend of Shoup Glacier, Alaska Gelatin silver print Decaneas Archive Courtesy of the Decaneas Archive |
| 49. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1962 (before) Aerial photograph illustrating typical drainage pattern developed in area underlain by Gila conglomerate. Gila County, Arizona United States Geological Service US Geological Service (Digital File:pnp00001) |
| 50. |  | Unidentified photographer / artist 1981 Studies of Columbia Glacier. Superimposed portions of vertical aerial photos illustrating the photograph-overlay method. The two photos, taken on September 26 and November 15, 1981, are displaced about 190 m in the north-south direction. United States Geological Service US Geological Service (Digital file: mmf00023) |
| 51. |  | William A. Garnett 1950 Foundations and Slabs, Lakewood, California Gelatin silver print J. Paul Getty Museum © William A. Garnett [Getty: 2000.32.26] |
| 52. |  | William A. Garnett 1955 Rabbit and Cattle Tracks, Carrizo Plain, California Gelatin silver print 13 7/16 x 10 3/8 in J. Paul Getty Museum The J. Paul Getty Trust (2000.32.14), © William A. Garnett |
| 53. |  | Marilyn Bridges n.d. Untitled Gelatin silver print Candace Dwan Gallery |
| 54. |  | Marilyn Bridges n.d. Untitled Gelatin silver print Candace Dwan Gallery |
| 55. |  | David Maisel 2004 Oblivion 1365 - 47n [Oblivion] C-print Provided by the artist - David Maisel © David Maisel This series by David Maisel is included in the book Oblivion by Nazraeli Press (2006, ISBN 1-59005-182-3). |
| 56. |  | David Maisel 2004 Oblivion 1382-52p Kopeikin Gallery (CLOSED - 2020) © David Maisel, Courtesy Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles Photo Synthesis Colin Westerbeck There's nothing like a good education to give you a unique perspective on the world. David Maisel graduated from Princeton summa cum laude in 1984, so it's not surprising that his work is brainy. He's aware that we live in a time when the economies are global, ideologies are not just political but geopolitical, science can look back beyond Noah's ark to the Big Bang, and nature itself is in danger of being extinguished. It's also true that "eye in the sky" satellites are keeping a close watch on us all the time. This photograph might be taken for a digital enhancement of such surveillance, but in fact, it's a low-tech image, though made from a high altitude. Maisel wants to disconcert us, but his interest is in the metaphorical rather than the actual revelations that his point of view makes possible. He wants his aerial photographs to "create their own cosmologies," not just map objective reality. His flyover of L.A. has yielded pictures that have this effect. They create a vision of a city more gothic than Gotham. This photograph of tract housing looks like an X-ray of the intestines of a giant beast that has eaten something it shouldn't have and is having trouble digesting it. [Originally published in West Magazine : January 28, 2007, p.11] |
| 57. |  | Terry Evans 2000 Contoured Planting, Sioux City, Iowa C-print Catherine Edelman Gallery |
| 58. |  | Terry Evans 2002 Northwest of Santa Fe, N.M., Red Car C-print Catherine Edelman Gallery |
| 59. |  | Logan Abassi 2010, 13 January Haitians Mount Tent Cities in Aftermath of Quake, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Color photograph United Nations Photo UN Photo/Logan Abassi. www.un.org/av/photo/, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en Haitians set up makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince after a powerful earthquake on 12 January severely damaged the capital. |
| 60. |  | DigitalGlobe 2012, 8 March Antonov An-26 over Tira Mande village, South Kordofan Satellite remote imaging Satellite Sentinel Project DigitalGlobe, uploaded to flickr - Enough Project Location: Tira Mande, South Kordofan, Sudan From the report: An aircraft consistent with an Antonov An-26 'Curl' is seen flying north over Tira Mande, which is 6.5 km/ 1mi north of of Angarto. The apparent Antonov An-26 was traveling at approximately 320 miles per hour, striking the second site approximately 11 seconds after striking the first. The Antonov An-26 is approximately 250 km/ 156 mi away from the El Obeid airstrip, 90 km/ 56 mi away from the Kadugli airstrip, and 30 km/ 19 mi away from the Talodi airstrip; each of these airstrips is under Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) control. SAF routinely uses Antonov aircraft to indiscriminately bombard civilian populations in South Kordofan, Darfur, and Blue Nile State. |
| 61. |  | DigitalGlobe 2012, 8 March Flames and smoke consistent with aerial bombardment Satellite remote imaging Satellite Sentinel Project DigitalGlobe, uploaded to flickr - Enough Project - http://www.enoughproject.org Location: Angarto, South Kordofan, Sudan From the report: Plumes of grey smoke can be seen rising from the ground at two separate locations north of the village of Angarto, South Kordofan on 8 March 2012. The plumes shown here are visible approximately 600 meters north of Angarto. This image, captured six minutes later by a second satellite, shows flames at one of the apparent impact sites. No military infrastructure or military units appear visible at or near the locations of the smoke plumes, based on satellite imagery analysis. |
| 62. |  | DigitalGlobe 2012, 13 January SAF Gunships and Transport at Kadugli Airstrip Satellite remote imaging Enough Project DigitalGlobe, uploaded to flickr - Enough Project - http://www.enoughproject.org Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan |
| 63. |  | DigitalGlobe 2012, 13 January SAF Gunships and Transport at Kadugli Airstrip (detail) Satellite remote imaging Enough Project DigitalGlobe, uploaded to flickr - Enough Project - http://www.enoughproject.org Kadugli, South Kordofan, Sudan |