In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight

by Anne Collins Goodyear

Book Overview

In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight , by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum photographer Carolyn Russo, redirects our attention to the often-overlooked simple beauty of aircraft design. With precedents in the work of Robert Delaunay, Charles Sheeler, and Arshile Gorky, among others, Russo uses fine art photography to bring out new visual dimensions of these powerful symbols of the 20th century, transforming them into works of art. Russo's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576874052
• ISBN13: 9781576874059
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Beauty, in Things That Fly

This is a book of beauty. It's not a catalogue of airplanes -- there are plenty other books like that -- this is a collection of pieces of photographic art. There are quotes and some intelligent interesting background information on each plane or spacecraft; but the stars are the almost abstract stunning photographs. The jet intake of a MiG-21F, a peeling paint close-up of Gemini IV, the lines of a Grob 103, the exhaust nozzle of an F-104A Starfighter. It's a Technicolor high-def love affair with mechanical bits of aviation history. Worth getting a coffee table for . . .