Exhibition
: Aerial photography past and present
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Forest Lawn Museum, California
From 10 October 2019 to 8 March 2020
THE intertwined histories of flight and photography are explored in a new exhibition at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, California, spanning more than a century of invention.
Nearly 150 still images and 14 minutes of video reveal how science and technology have been harnessed in the service of art and beauty. Among them is this mangrove-sheltered outflow of the Tsiribihina river in western Madagascar, which revealed its secrets to the Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite. The image was produced from open-source data by French geographer Erwan Rivault.
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Also on display is this vertiginous glimpse of NASA astronauts conducting their first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1993, and a shot from Los Angeles-based drone pilot and photographer Chen Ming of Chicago鈥檚 Millennium Park from 120 metres up. His strict vertical angles and tight framing offer as rare a perspective on public monuments as they do on sites that are otherwise hard to access.
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