
Swissair Aerial Photographs
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9783858814296
- Specifications
- Hardcover
208 pages
Upwards of 100,000 aerial views in the archive
Aerial photography held a special place in the business of a legendary airline. Before its founder entered the field of civil aviation, he trained behind the camera, and the carrier had a subsidiary company that continues today even though the airline itself ceased operations. This volume reproduces beautiful, striking images that reveal changes in landscapes and towns over nearly a century, documenting growth of infrastructure and urban sprawl as an idyllic agricultural country evolved into one of the most densely inhabited places in the world.