"Mesmerizing....Look long enough and the obsession of photographer-pilot MacLean begins to resemble genius."―Los Angeles Times The tradition of aerial photography arose from a keen nineteenth-century desire to see "the world in motion." Starting with Nadar's photographic balloon trips, airborne experimentation with landscapes and cityscapes continued through great photographers from Steichen to Burkhardt. With Alex MacLean, we enter a different world. For thirty years, this committed photographer has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that show and explain the universal history of town and countryside. What he has to say may be invigorating or alarming, but it always raises the issue of the landscape's future. This new collection of exemplary photographs taken across the American landscape reflects MacLean's passionate interest in the effects of time, geological movements, shifting landscapes, redeployment, pollution, urban sprawl, and the overlapping of surfaces and activities. More than 400 color photographs reveal in a unique way the physical splendor of America: both the beauty of the ongoing inhabiting of the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments. 400+ full-color photographs

Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air

Arts & Photography

MacLean, Alex S.

BESSE, Jean-Marc

Corner, James

Tiberghien, Gilles A.

MacLean, Alex

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

For more than thirty years, aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean has portrayed the history and evolution of the American land, from great desert spaces to agricultural patterns to city grids. A trained architect who is closely involved in landscape heritage protection issues, MacLean has set out to create a series of pictures that record the universal history of town and countryside, and raise the issue of the landscape's future. Here he turns his camera on the colorful, exhilarating patterns created by Americans at play, and the lasting marks they leave behind. From the beauty of perfectly symmetric sports stadiums to the spaghetti-like tangles of theme parks to picnickers on a stretch of splendid beach, he illuminates how we inhabit the land and the potential for modern planning to create spectacular environments. 80 color illustrations.

The Playbook

Photography & Video

L'Arpenteur du ciel

TEXTUEL

Dünen. Die Wiederentdeckung einer geheimnisvollen Landschaft: Von Blåvands Huk bis St. Peter-Ording

Travel

Reise, Karsten

Pictorial

KJM Buchverlag

La fotografía del territorio recoge fotografías aéreas del paisaje estadounidense tomadas desde la ventanilla de la cabina de una avioneta. Bajas y oblicuas, con una profundidad de campo aplanada y ambigüedad de escala, Alex S. MacLean compone extraordinarias imágenes abstractas del inmenso paisaje que revelan aspectos del territorio que, de otro modo, permanecerían ocultos o invisibles. El libro está dividido en varios capítulos que analizan temas tan interesantes y diversos como el campo y las ciudades, las antiguas civilizaciones indias y las nuevas formas de asentamientos, el abandono y la contaminación, la escala, los límites o los aparcamientos.

La Fotografia del Territorio (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Gustavo Gili.

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