In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight

by Anne Collins Goodyear

Book Overview

In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight , by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum photographer Carolyn Russo, redirects our attention to the often-overlooked simple beauty of aircraft design. With... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576874052
• ISBN13: 9781576874059
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: powerHouse Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Beauty, in Things That Fly

This is a book of beauty. It's not a catalogue of airplanes -- there are plenty other books like that -- this is a collection of pieces of photographic art. There are quotes and some intelligent interesting background information on each plane or spacecraft; but the stars are the almost abstract stunning photographs. The jet intake of a MiG-21F, a peeling paint close-up of Gemini IV, the lines of a Grob 103, the exhaust nozzle of an F-104A Starfighter. It's a Technicolor high-def love affair with mechanical bits of aviation history. Worth getting a coffee table for . . .