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In Plane View, Abstractions of Flight

Saturday 16th August 2008

By Carolyn Russo
In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight by Carolyn Russo

Title: In Plane View, Abstractions of Flight

Author: Carolyn Russo

ISBN: ISBN 978-1-57687-405-9

Publisher: PowerHouse Books

Edition: Hardback

For the most part, we earthlings struggle to comprehend how an aircraft can take off, let alone cruise through the clouds at 700mph and land safely on the other side of the world. In spite, or perhaps because, of this these airborne leviathans exert a powerful grip on our imaginations. Whether it's the sleek fuselages or the roar of the jet engines, the allure of manned flight is hard to resist. Carolyn Russo has been the photographer at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in the US since 1988. Her skewed close-ups of its collection of aircraft and spacecraft have an unnervingly anatomical feel to them that will make you see flying machines, and photography, in a whole new light.

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