Women and Flight

by Carolyn Russo and National Air and Space Museum

Book Overview

Women pilots took to the skies soon after the Wright brothers, but only a few - Amelia Earhart, Beryl Markham and Sally Ride for example - have been recognized for their achievements. In this volume,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082122168X
• ISBN13: 9780821221686
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Bulfinch Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.4" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

One of the best.

Carolyn Russo has revealed herself as a brilliant fine arts photographer in Women and Flight. Her portraits/landscapes are reminiscent of the finest works of Margaret Bourke-White and of other photographers who worked for Life magazine as hybrid portraitists/journalists during the middle of the 20th century. Photography is a form of architecture when done this well. Among Ms. Russo's wares are the ability to perceive immense depth in her subjects, an unfailing sense of when a stone is a stone (clarity), a surpassing gift of subtle humor and a fine old patience in dealing with her tools of the trade. The prints are flawless. They give us light... and much more.

Inspirational!

If you are interested in a career or a lifestyle above the ground somewhere it would do you a great deal of good to pick up this book. I almost missed a flight due to flipping through this book in the gift shop. Every type of "bird" is in this book from private pilot to skywriter to Air Force Captain to astronaut. Its great to read that others are where I want to be and they didn't have the easiest time getting there. I can't say enough about this book. I will sleep with it under my pillow. And I've only browsed it! Truly a winner.