“I love the photographs of Back Bay, The Boston Common, The Public Garden, and Commonwealth Avenue,” Malin wrote. “My college was located in this area and I also met my husband on the street ...

You can debate all you like on whether Boston truly deserves to be called “the Hub of the Universe,” but an exquisite aerial photo from hundreds of miles overhead sure makes the city feel like it.

The arrival of photography created a new way of seeing. The arrival of aerial photography created a new way of using that new way of seeing. Photographing from above offers a form of visual ...

On October 13, 1860, pioneering photographer James Wallace Black took the earliest surviving aerial photograph in the United States, shown above, from a hot air balloon floating above Boston Common.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Randall Munroe of xkcd posted aerial photographs of Boston he took with his Kite Cam. It made me wonder about how old aerial photography is, and whether the earliest ...

The Met: Best known for his photographs of Boston after the devasting fire of 1872, Black launched his solo career in 1860 with the production of a series of aerial photographs taken from Samuel ...

It wasn’t long after commercial photography was invented in ... air balloon Queen of the Air 2,000 feet above Boston is the oldest surviving aerial photograph. James Wallace Black's aerial ...

It wasn’t long after commercial photography was invented in ... air balloon Queen of the Air 2,000 feet above Boston is the oldest surviving aerial photograph. George Lawrence later perfected ...

Two years later, aerial photography came to the United States by way of James Wallace Black, who took photographs from a hot-air balloon above Boston, in 1860. As photographic technology advanced ...

The Met: Best known for his photographs of Boston after the devasting fire of 1872, Black launched his solo career in 1860 with the production of a series of aerial photographs taken from Samuel ...