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Cities from the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America Contributor(s): Thomas Campanella(Author), Witold Rybczynski(Foreword by) ISBN: 1568982992 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub Date: November 2001 Hardcover  0.82" H x 12.83" L x 14.89" W 128 pages From the Publisher Piloting a single-engine biplane high above Washington D.C. in 1920, the intrepid inventor and aviation pioneer Sherman Fairchild first tested his custom-built sky camera, effectively founding the aerial photography company that would bear his name. Roaming America's skies for the next 40 years, the photographers of the Fairchild Aerial Survey Company documented nearly every major city in the United States This beautifully produced, large format book collects over 125 extraordinary images taken between the 1920s and the 1960s. The photographs, valued both as works of art and as tools for urban historians, often capture historic moments: the Capitol Building during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inauguration and Yankee Stadium during Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Others depict architectural landmarks: the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Monument, Hoover Dam, and Alcatraz, to name a few Retail Price $39.98 Aerial Arts Price $39.95