Alfred G Buckham
Aerial view of Edinburgh
about 1920
Medium Silver gelatine print
Size 45.80 x 37.80 cm
Scottish National Galleries
Buckham had crashed nine times before he was discharged from the Royal Naval Air Service as a hundred per cent disabled. Continuing to indulge his passion for aerial photography, he wrote that ‘If one’s right leg is tied to the seat with a scarf or a piece of rope, it is possible to work in perfect security’. Presumably these were the perilous conditions in which the photographer took this dazzling picture of Edinburgh.
Exclamated exhalation underscore gasp. Photography!
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