Gaspard-Félix Tournachon was among Paris’s foremost polymaths. In addition to perfecting the art of aerial photography, he was also an accomplished cartoonist and entrepreneur. Tobias Grey ...

Our interest in aerial photography dates back to more than a hundred and fifty years ago. In 1858, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, who used the pseudonym Nadar, captured the first aerial photographs ...

A photo of the Puu Oo vent on the Big Island, Hawaii, taken by Liu Xiaoxiao. [Photo provided to China Daily] In 1858, the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, known as ...

A photo of the Puu Oo vent on the Big Island, Hawaii, taken by Liu Xiaoxiao. [Photo provided to China Daily] In 1858, the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, known as ...

More than 150 years ago, the far-sighted French photographer, artist and balloonist Gaspard-Félix Tournachon said the three defining elements of modernity were “photography, electricity and ...