Sightseers in the crown of the Statue of Liberty, 1951. This week we celebrate the birth of American independence, click below to view more aerial photos of the USA! (📷 Margaret Bourke-White/LIFE Picture Collection) LIFEMagazine StatueofLiberty USA
The Statue of Liberty, photographed from a helicopter, 1952.In 1952, the notion of a photographer going up in a helicopter to take pictures of landscapes, monuments, buildings and other notable sights from the air was novel enough to warrant a 12-page article in LIFE magazine.
In 1930, she was the first Western photographer officially allowed into the USSR; she was America’s first accredited woman photographer in WWII, and the very first authorized to fly on combat missions; she was one of the first and certainly the most celebrated of the photographers to document the horrors of Nazi concentration camps after they were liberated in the spring of 1945; she was the last person to interview Mohandas Gandhi before he was assassinated; and on and on.
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