Arthur Batut

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title: "Arthur Batut" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["pioneers-of-photography", "19th-century-french-photographers", "1846-births", "1918-deaths", "people-from-castres"] description: "French photographer" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Batut" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Arthur Batut (9 February 1846 – 19 January 1918) was a French photographer and pioneer of aerial photography.

Life

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At the time, kite aerial photography had potential applications for aerial reconnaissance, but also for agriculture and archeology. The first aerial photographs had been taken by Nadar from a balloon in 1858. The use of unmanned kites promised obvious advantages in a military setting.

Inspired by Francis Galton, he also produced composite photographs combining portraits of multiple people onto one plate.

Works

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Notes

References

1. Negre, Serge. (December 1991). "Arthur Batut – Photographie 1846–1918". Photoresearcher.
2. Hannavy, John. (2008). "Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography". Taylor & Francis Group.

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