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| Designs on the Land: Exploring America from the Air | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexander S. Maclean
Creator: James Corner
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £27.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 307110
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0500284148
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780500284148
ASIN: 0500284148
Publication Date: May 2003
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An upbeat look at down August 9, 2003
This the third book I have bought of Alex MacLean's stunning aerial photographs of the American landscape. The other two, 'Look at the Land' (1993) and 'Across the American Landscape' (1996) were lovely to look at but this latest book with 430 photos is excellent.
MacLean captures the changing American scene beautifully and in pin sharp detail. Unfortunately, none of the photos are dated and many of them appeared in both his earlier books so some of them could be ten years old. The various chapters cover America from above though the concentration is on the man-made environment, including such delights as parking, city grid, pollution, sprawl, abandonment and more. These might seem dreary objects to photograph but MacLean can make a half-full parking lot look exciting and in many cases, when seen from above, so many of these images have a definite abstract art look about them. The agriculture photos, of huge fields stretching into the horizon, must be seen to be believed.
Comprehensive though the coverage is there is one area of the landscape MacLean has not been able to cover, the huge amount of land controlled by the military. Some of their activities would make fascinating photos.
You might get the impression looking through the pages that open land in the US is fast disappearing but the reality is that the hand of man affects less than ten percent of the nation, the remainder is just open country.
Get this fascinating book if you want to see what the American landscape looks like from a view that most of us will never normally see.
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