The book began as an appendix to another book, which was never written. Back in 2004 I thought that book should have a brief ...

In the early 1880s, large kites became a relatively inexpensive platform for aerial photography. Long strings of large kites were eventually coupled together to carry heavy camera equipment ...

"The more we release things that are not known, the more we learn about our own history." The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910 is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York until 20 July ...