Alfred Buckham
(1879 - 1956)

Alfred George Buckham was a British photographer who specialised in aerial photography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Buckham

Aerial View of Edinburgh
ca.1920
Gelatin silver print
45.80 x 37.80 cm
National Galleries of Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/17391

 

From the earliest days of manned flight, photographers sought to capture the strange and unfamiliar beauty of the view from above. Whether it was from balloons, airships or later, fixed-wing aircraft, enterprising pioneers overcame formida­ble technical obstacles to create striking new images of the world below. It was, however, through warfare in the twentieth century that aerial photography came to prominence. Alfred Buckham’s remarkable body of work in the air had its origins in a brief, eventful career with the Royal Navy in the last phase of the First World War, but he was also able to develop a highly personal approach that combined his skills in documentary reconnaissance with an artist’s feeling for mood and atmosphere.