BIRD’S EYE VIEW
Dramatic shift of perspective makes the landscape photography of Alex Maclean fire the imagination. for the past 25 years, Maclean has been piloting his cessna 182 plane across the states, capturing the abstract and familiar and presenting the results in stunning compositions. Out of context, colors, shapes and repetition produce startling effects. “An aerial photograph gives you an immediate shift in scale,” he explains. “It allows you to see large areas and objects as models. The eye is drawn to the unfamiliar, wanting to place it back in order and make it familiar. From the air, you recognize patterns and understand relationships that you might never imagine otherwise. The experience fills you with wonder.”
AIR LINES: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALEX MACLEAN RUNS UNTIL APRIL 23, 2006 AT THE PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM, SALEM, MA. www.PEM.ORG
COTTON HARVESTING
BUCKEYE, ARIZONA, 2004
DUCKWEED HARVESTING IN A SEWAGE LAGOON
DEVIL’S LAKE, NEVADA, 1991
PARKING AT MEMORIAL STADIUM
DURING BALTIMORE ORIOLES GAME
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 1990
HOUSING QUAYS
MANAHAWKIN, NEW JERSEY, 1981
BLUE TANKERS IN TRAIN YARD
WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, 1993
DRY-LAND FARMING FIELD
SHELBY, MONTANA, 1991
HOUSES WITH POOLS
MIAMI, FLORIDA, 1999
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