TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hardesty,Von
AU  - Eisman,Gene
TI  - Camera aloft: Edward Steichen in the Great War 
T2  - Cambridge Centennial of Flight
SN  - 9781139024433 (ebook)
AV  - D639.P39 H37 2015
U1  - 940.4/4973092B 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Steichen, Edward,
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Photography
KW  - Aerial observation (Military science)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Aerial operations, American
KW  - Pictorial works
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Western Front
KW  - War photographers
KW  - Biography
KW  - War photography
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Dec 2015); Foreword: Taking the camera aloft -- War and exile -- A new life in the military -- Over there -- The world of air observation -- Taking charge -- Over the front -- War and photography -- Appendix: Life at the cutting edge: the photo sections
N2  - Edward Steichen (1879-1973) played a key role in the development of photography in the twentieth century. He is well known for his varied career as an artist, a celebrated photographer and a museum curator. However, Steichen is less known for his pivotal role in shaping America's first experiments in aerial photography as a tool for intelligence gathering in what may be called his 'lost years'. In Camera Aloft, Von Hardesty tells how Steichen volunteered in 1917 to serve in the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). He rose rapidly in the ranks of the Air Service, emerging as Chief of Air Photography during the dramatic final offensives of the war. His photo sections were responsible for the rapid processing of aerial images gained through the daily and hazardous sorties over the front and in the enemy rear areas. What emerged in the eighteen months of his active service was a new template for modern aerial reconnaissance. The aerial camera, as with new weapons such as the machine gun, the tank and the airplane, profoundly transformed modern warfare
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139024433
ER  -