Review:
When do buffalo look like cockroaches? When does a nuclear site look like a work of art? No doubt about it, things look different from the air. Flying high above the ground in a plane and looking down is one thing; photographing it is quite another. But Marilyn Bridges has met the challenge with imagination and verve. Viewing her black and white photographs of World War II aircraft gunnery tracks in the California desert, Washington monuments, or Oklahoma wheat fields, one can "feel something about our interaction with the land" and experience "the pure emotional response" Bridges gets behind the camera.
About the Author:
Marilyn Bridges, one of the world's foremost aerial photographers, is the photographer/author of a number of books, among them Planet Peru and Markings (both published by Aperture), and Egypt: Antiquities from Above. She received her M.F.A. in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1981. Her images have been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia and are included in more than fifty collections worldwide. Bridges has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a New York State CAPS Grant, as well as Fullbright and NEA grants. She is a fellow of The Explorers Club and a licensed pilot for both single and multi-engine aircraft. She lives outside New York City and in Somerset, England. She is married to photojournalist Don McCullin.
William Least Heat-Moon, born of English-Irish-Osage ancestry in Kansas City, Missouri, is the author of the international bestseller Blue Highways (1982), named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by Time magazine. His second book, PrairyErth (1991), an epic evocation of the American tall grass prairie country, was on the New York Times bestseller list for three months. He holds a doctorate in English, and a bachelor's degree in photojournalism. He is presently working on his next book, a narrative of a voyage through the waterways of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
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