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Sto caricando le informazioni... Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air (2003)di Alex S. MacLean
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Exploring America from the air If I didn't have to work, sleep, commute, or do other things that take up a good chunk of the day, I'd probably waste a lot more time looking at aerial photography, be it professional or satellite-generated. The bird's eye view conveys so much information (hardly a substitute from the reality of being on the ground, but appealing just because it's not that), revealing so many things about the world and the way we've decided to interact with it, that there's an unending supply of eye candy, visuals that are constantly changing to boot. Alex S. MacLean is one of the masters of aerial photography, focusing on the United States' sprawling method for building across the land. This book collects lots of his photos, arranged into thematic chapters (the American grid, forests, pollution, sprawl) that anchor his photos in a kind of aerial activism, asking people to consider their actions in how they live, work, shop and play. My only quibble is the size of the book (about 8x10"), which works for portrait images, but many of the landscape-oriented photos are half-page (okay, but not great), across two-page spreads (not so good, with the fold running down the middle), or tiny with eight to a page (not good). nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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