airship commander Samuel A. King, with whom he made the first aerial photograph on Oct. 13,1860 in Boston from a height of 350 m from Kings hot-air balloon "Queen of the Air" ;
photographer and inventor -> John Adams Whipple, with whom he founded the Whipple & Black photostudio in Boston ;
landscape photography, daguerreotype, and positive slides ;
Boston Athenaeum, Boston Public Libr., George Eastman House, Historic New England, Massachusetts Historical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC ;
In Memoriam: J. W. B., in: Wilsons Photographic Magazine, March 1896 ; B.Z. Jones & L.G. Boyd: The Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, Mass. 1971); Omar Nasim: Handling the heavens, in Julia Bärnighausen et al.(eds.) Photo-Objects, Berlin 2019: 161-175, esp. p. 9
In the 1870s, Black specialized on laterna-magica slides; he was also known for his portraits & panorama photographs.
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