Jeffrey Milstein is an American photographer whose latest project, Aircraft, featured in June's Creative Review, focuses on the "The Jet as Art".
Standing at the end of LAX airport runway Milstein photographed the undersides of incoming aircraft to look at the designs that distinguish companies from competitors and plane models from others.
A somewhat boring medium you would think but what the photography has captured is the beauty of the machines by removing all motion and simply placing the images on a white background.
http://www.jeffreymilstein.com/
This project of Milstein's is available in his book "AirCraft, The Jet as Art," published by Abrams.
I was reminded of the project after looking at the stamps created by True North for the 100 years of motor sport. Both using the idea of removing all motion to represent the beauty of the machine.
Some of Milstein's other projects are also very intriguing, especially his project "Industrial Archeology". Examples of this project are shown below.
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I'm not exactly interested in aircraft myself but I am someone who believes that photographs can make anything look beautiful (or incredibly ugly). If the angle and the framing of the photo is right then anything can be made into an interesting visual piece. I particularly like the last photograph-the framing of the photo just MAKES the atmosphere of the piece and you can imagine that you are there and how desolate and dingy that place is.
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