5 October 2019 | New Scientist | 29Downcast eyes
Exhibition
The Elevated Eye: Aerial
photography past and
present
Forest Lawn Museum, California
From 10 October 2019 to
8 March 2020THE 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 (far left),
which revealed its secrets to the
Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite.
The image was produced from
open-source data by French
geographer Erwan Rivault.
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’s
Millennium Park (bottom) 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. ❚Simon IngsEyes on the skies? See jet suit pilot Sam Rogers in action
at New Scientist Live on 10 October
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CLOCKWISE FROM FAR LEFT: ERWAN RIVAULT, TSIRIBIHINA
RIVER, 2018. MODIFIED COPERNICUS SENTINEL-2A SATELLITE
DATA. COURTESY OF @ EARTHFROMSATELLITES; NASA;
CHEN MING, 400 FEET ABOVE MILLENNIUM PARK, 2019.
INKJET DIGITAL PRINT. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST