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[Future of flying photograph collection]
- Title: [Future of flying photograph collection]
- Other Title: Future of flight
- Creator(s): McNally, Joe, 1952-, photographer
- Date Created/Published: 2002-03.
- Medium: 7,182 photographs : digital, tiff file, color.
- Summary: The photographs show technologically advanced as well as older aircraft documented in more than ten different locations, including (among others) the B-2 stealth bomber; F-16 and F-22 planes; Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Predator drone and X-45; Ultralight recreational aircraft; refurbished B-52 bomber; C-5 and C-130 Hercules cargo planes; SR-71 Blackbird; and 737 airliner. Also scenes aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf; aerobatics at the Sunrise Aviation School and moth-balled airliners in California; the sound chamber at Wright-Patterson Airforce Base; the Blue Angels; and the Joint Strike Fighter Demonstration program.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
100 photos: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Joe McNally ...," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.798.mcna
7,081 photos (most of the collection): Publication may be restricted. For information, see "Joe McNally ...," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.798.mcna
- Call Number: Guide Record (ONLINE) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Each photograph is individually cataloged with call numbers LC-DIG-ppbd-04213 through LC-DIG-ppbd-11394.
- The born-digital photographs in this collection were created for a National Geographic cover story called "The Future of Flying: Faster, Farther, Smarter" (December 2003). "This was the first ever all digital story shot for National Geographic. In other words, not a frame of film was expended in the field. It was all shot with ones and zeroes on Nikon D1X cameras. ... One of the best barometers of the impact of the story was that most of the take was acquired by the Library of Congress. The curators there felt it was an important continuum in the visual history of aviation they have maintained since the days of the Wright Brothers. They also felt strongly that the first digital effort on the part of National Geographic was worth noting and preserving." (Source: portfolio.joemcnally.com, 2023)
- Title devised by Library staff.
- TIFF files stored in digital acquisitions server space.
- Purchase; Joe McNally; 2007; (DLC/PP-2007:048).
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- Rights Advisory: 100 photos: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Joe McNally ...," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.798.mcna 7,081 photos (most of the collection): Publication may be restricted. For information, see "Joe McNally ...," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.798.mcna
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record (ONLINE) [P&P]
- Medium: 7,182 photographs : digital, tiff file, color.
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- Call Number: Guide Record (ONLINE) [P&P]
- Medium: 7,182 photographs : digital, tiff file, color.
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