This is the widely-anticipated history of U.S. naval photography officially commissioned by the National Association of Naval Photography. The book highlights many of the people involved in Navy photography from the earliest days, beginning in 1914 when the Navy’s first “official� photographer, Walter L. Richardson, a cook and amateur photographer, took some of the first pictures for the naval service, and contains dozens of archival photographs collected from retired Navy photographers and other private collections around the country. It traces the history of naval photography to the present time, highlighting the many colorful and talented photographers whose skill, dedication made this history so remarkable. There are action photographs taken over the decades by some of the Navy’s best photographers, in addition to dozens of photographs of these distinguished photographers themselves.