The Event and the Image, Fused by the Viewfinder by Michael Kimmelman
From the website: The other day, in an exhibition here at the Jeu de Paume called "The Event," I came across a marvelous photograph of the pioneering French aviator Hubert Latham. The picture was shot by some anonymous shutterbug in July 1909, when Latham's monoplane, the Antoinette, softly crashed just a mile or so shy of the Dover cliffs. Latham was racing from Calais to try to cross the Channel (this was his second attempt), and he had gotten far enough to hear the sirens of well-wishers and the hooting of tugs at the English shore when his engine suddenly conked out.
