Newhall, Beaumont. Airborne Camera: The World from the Air and Outer Space by Beaumont Newhall.

Hastings House in collaboration with The George Eastman House, 1969. Special edition for The Museum of Modern Art. Stiff illustrated wraps. Amazingly fine condition for a book of this vintage. A history of aerial photography dating back to Felix Nadar's photographs from balloons, circa 1860, to photographs taken by cameras carried by pigeons, to early aircraft photography, on up to space photography in the 1960s. Newhall, who was closely associated with leading figures in photography such Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, and Alfred Stieglitz, and was married to the photography writer Nancy Newhall, is well known as one of the foremost authorities on the history of photography; his book, The History of Photography, went through a number of editions. He also wrote hundreds of other books and articles on daguerreotypes, the invention of photography, and myriad other topics, and served as the director of The George Eastman House.  During World War II, he analyzed aerial reconnaissance photographs, hence his enduring interest in this subject.