Aerial photography

David Maisel

Nathan Abels. 2007

Mario Giacomelli Gelatin silver print 1980-1989

Balthasar Burkhard Mexiko - 1999 - 125 x 158 cm

Vincenzo Castella. untitled, C Print 2002

Frank van der Salm. 'Display'2005 152 x 120 cm

Coco Solo

Coco Solo is a lithograph in an edition of 20. made by Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodriguez)

This image was hand drawn by the artists and is based on a series of drawings of sandals with maps of Havana neighborhoods on the soles.

Coco Solo 2004 Color lithograph 42" x 72" Edition 20

Sandalia 2004 Two cast rubber sculptures Each sandal: 12 3/4" x 5 3/4" x 2 1/2"

Alamar 2007 Color lithograph 42" x 58" Edition 10, XXX

A Journey Through Geometric Geography

Nathan-this one is for you

Through Nikolas Schiller's Eye, Aerial Maps of Familiar Places Become Terra Incognita.

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The Lenz Project

cartographic calligraphy

Israel - Palestine 1993

Over Roswell

Gábor Kerekes - OVER ROSWELL-2 / 2005

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The town of Roswell lies in the state of New Mexico in the United States at latitude 33.4° N and longitude 104.5° W. In 1947 locals found three dead aliens in a crashed UFO on the outskirts of the town. The FBI and the CIA kept silent and hushed up the incident. The murkiness surrounding this mysterious case has been a source of scandal and controversy ever since. Gábor Kerekes came across a computer program called "U.S.A. Photomap". With this program you can download a photo-quality satellite image of anywhere in America by giving the geographical coordinates.

OVER ROSWELL-2 / 4 / PIGMENTED PRINT 15X16 CM

The maximum resolution is 1 metre/pixel, so on a 17 inch monitor with a resolution of 1,024 pixels you can see 1,024 metres. This sparked his imagination. Casting himself in the role of the Roswell aliens, he wondered how this place would look from space.

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"I gave the coordinates. Slowly, square by square, the monitor was filled by the full image. What luck! I overshot the centre of the town, ending up about 600-800 metres away from the inhabited area. A curious, exciting sight greeted my eyes. Lines, circles and squares in a geometrical, abstract arrangement of symbols.

OVER ROSWELL-2 / R 12 / PIGMENTED PRINT 18X12 CM

You couldn't help but think that these geometrical symbols on the surface of the Earth were intended to convey a message or information. The sight offered an exceptionally varied and almost undecodable configuration. If I were an alien, I'd land here! I cut out details of the picture by "screenshoot", added pixels due to the low resolution and printed them. I photographed the print-outs by large film format, and contact printed the negatives on pigmented print. This is how this Roswell collection was made. "

OVER ROSWELL-2 / R 11 / PIGMENTED PRINT 16X12 CM

OVER ROSWELL-2 / R 20 / PIGMENTED PRINT 17.5X cm

Island of Relative Stability

by Sean Higgins

Map Approach, 2007 Inkjet print transfer and acrylic on Plexigla s48 x 48 in

Terraform, 2007 Inkjet print transfer and acrylic on Plexiglas 36 x 36 in.

Soliton, 2006 Inkjet print transfer and acrylic on Plexiglas 36 x 36 in.

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L A N D S C A P E S

Oil paintings by Gilad Efrat and photography by Taiji Matsue

Gilad Efrat

Taiji Matsue

Taiji Matsue JP-22 No. 46, 2005

Taiji Matsue. 'YOK 0279' . 2002, Gelatin silver print 50x61 cm

Taiji Matsue. 'JP-22 No. 59' . 2005, C-print 50x61 cm

Blattschnitte

Natalie Czech, uses vertical aerial photographs that are freely available on the Internet and combines them by multiple superimposition. she concentrates on industrial and railway facilities whose linearity lends itself to suchlike montage.

From the serie: Blattschnitte

Blattschnitte 28, 2005, 80 x 60 cm

Blattschnitte 30, 2005, 146 x 108 cm

Blattschnitte 17, 2004146 x 100 cm

Blattschnitte 06, 2003120 x 80 cm via