From Above: Aerial Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography

Marilyn Bridges. Cattle Feeding, Parker Ranch, Hawaii, 1990. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Steven Soter. ©Marilyn Bridges 1990 [2011 .51.14 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]
I love aerial photography so when curator Rebecca Senf, Ph.D., Norton Family Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography, let me know about her comprehensive exhibition, From Above: Aerial Photography from the Center for Creative Photography at the Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, I wanted to see more. The exhibition is in it’s last month and will run through September 22, 2013. It is a significant celebration of aerial images with over 80 aerial photographs that reflects the relationship between flight and photography.
As part of the Center for Creative Photography/Phoenix Art Museum collaboration, the organizations have created their first exhibition e-book: “From Above: Aerial Photographs from the Center for Creative Photography”. Working with Hol Art Books publisher, Greg Albers, an e-book was produced which brings together all the exhibition’s photographs and objects texts, plus an introductory essay. It can be downloaded for FREE at: http://is.gd/aerialphoto
Aerial photography not only draws us into the sky, to look anew at the landscape, but challenges our understanding of the reality of photography, as the view from above abstracts the world and presents a surprising two-dimensional version of what we think we know.

William Garnett. Snow Geese with Reflection of the Sun over Buena Vista Lake, California, 1953. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Ansel and Virginia Adams. ©William A. Garnett Estate [76.317.8 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Bradford Washburn. West Face of Mt. McKinley, Alaska, June 1977. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the artist and Ansel and Virginia Adams. ©Bradford Washburn, courtesy Decaneas Archive, Revere, MA [78.9.1 – SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION]

Albert Stevens. Oakland, 1920s. Gelatin silver print. Gift of Ansel and Virginia Adams. Courtesy of the U.S. Air Service and the Center for Creative Photography [78.100.34 – PEACETIME SURVEY]

Dean Brown. North Slope, Alaska, 1971. Dye transfer print. Dean Brown Archive/Gift of the Dean Brown Fund. Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona ©2011 Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents [78.200.41 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Dan Budnik. Black Mesa Coal Mine, “Kayenta” Pit, Hopi/Navajo, AZ, ca. 1980. Polaroid print. Special purchase from a grant from the Polaroid Corporation. ©Dan Budnik [81.117.27 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

W. Eugene Smith. Avenger in Landing Circle over Bunker Hill Carrier, 1944. Gelatin silver print. W. Eugene Smith Archive. ©The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith [82.102.1 – PHOTOJOURNALISM]

Otto Hagel. Detroit, 1939. Gelatin silver print. Hansel Mieth/Otto Hagel Archive. Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona © 1998 The University of Arizona Foundation [98.111.46 – PHOTOJOURNALISM]

Terry Evans. Farm Along Wet Walnut Creek West of Cheyenne Bottoms, August 1993. Chromogenic print. Water in the West Archive. ©Terry Evans [99.67.1 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Robert Dawson. Aerial view of flooded Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta, California, 1986. Gelatin silver print. Water in the West Archive. ©Robert Dawson [2000.52.2 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

David Maisel. Quarry, Solebury, Pennsylvania, 1983. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the Frederick and Frances Sommer Trust. ©David Maisel [2000.110.56 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Martin Stupich. Haying near Pass Creek, Carbon County, WY, 1998. Gelatin silver print. Water in the West Archive. ©Martin Stupich [2001.10.4 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Neal Rantoul. Martha’s Vineyard 12, 2012. Archival inkjet print. Gift of the artist. ©Neal Rantoul [2012.47.12 – AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART]

Photographer unknown. WWI Aerial Reconnaissance glass plate lantern slide. Edward Steichen Miscellaneous Collection [ag_24_01_029 and ag_24_01_035 – MILITARY RECONAISSANCE]

Photographer unknown. WWI Aerial Reconnaissance glass plate lantern slide. Edward Steichen Miscellaneous Collection [ag_24_01_029 and ag_24_01_035 – MILITARY RECONAISSANCE]
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