Aerial Photography
航空写真 / 1858– / Style / Photographic Genres
The view from above begun with Nadar's balloon: the vertical gaze that turns cities into figures, passing through survey and war into landscape-as-abstraction, and on to satellites and drones.
The vertical view as figure / Terrain drawn by shadow / The gridded city / Scale without people
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Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Nadar's balloon / the growth of aerial survey / satellite and drone aesthetics