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Marina di Pisa, frangiflutti e piscine artificiali sulla costa tirrenica

Alex MacLean2007

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts

MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts
Rome, Italy

Flying and photographing. Alex MacLean successfully combined his two passions into a profession and an art. After graduating in architecture from Harvard, in 1975 he founded Landslides Aerial Photography in Cambridge (Massachusetts). He has since been soaring over the United States in his Cesna 182 to document its landscapes.
Natural settings, infrastructures, urbanised areas, agricultural zones and theme parks are represented in MacLean’s photographs as infinite patterns that reveal the bizarre geometry determined by (violent) human action in the landscape.
Invited by the MAXXI to participate in the "atlante italiano 007. Rischio paesaggio" project, MacLean captured a series of astounding and ironic images of Central Italy from the air in the midst of the summer season.

Details

  • Title: Marina di Pisa, frangiflutti e piscine artificiali sulla costa tirrenica
  • Creator: Alex MacLean
  • Creator Lifespan: 1947
  • Creator Nationality: American
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Date: 2007
  • Physical Dimensions: w76 x h101 cm
  • Type: Photograph: Colour digital print (light jet)
  • External Link: http://maxxisearch.fondazionemaxxi.it/maxxi/collezionifoto/photo/IT-MAXXI-FT0002-0000000707
  • Description (Italian): Volare e fotografare. Delle sue due passioni Alex MacLean ha fatto una professione e un’arte. Dopo essersi laureato ad Harvard in architettura, nel 1975 ha fondato a Cambridge (Massachusetts) la Landslides Aerial Photography, e da allora vola con il suo Cesna 182 sopra gli Stati Uniti, documentandone il paesaggio. Paesaggi naturali, infrastrutture, aree urbanizzate, zone agricole, parchi tematici ci appaiono nelle fotografie di MacLean come infiniti pattern che rivelano la bizzarra geometria determinata dalla (violenta) azione umana sul territorio. Invitato dal MAXXI a partecipare al progetto "atlante italiano 007. Rischio paesaggio", MacLean ha ripreso volando la parte centrale dell’Italia, da costa a costa, in piena stagione estiva, realizzando immagini strabilianti e ironiche.

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