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JEFFREY MILSTEIN: FROM THE AIR
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) April 27 - July 31, 2021The exhibition, entitled From the Air , presents a wide range of Milstein’s exquisite aerial photographs traveling from Los Angeles to New York to Paris and beyond. Created entirely by...Read more
"It’s a privileged view. Who wouldn’t want to fly around like a bird looking at anything and everything down below? I think it’s about the content of the image, but also the form in general. My art training and architecture background leads me to create images in a more traditional sense — ones that utilize order, balance, symmetry, and framing. I think we’re so bombarded with digital images today that people really respond to my kind of classical images."
Milstein earned his pilots license at 17, and his passion for flight led to his well known typology of aircraft photographed from below while landing. The work was presented in a solo show at the Ulrich Museum of Art in 2008, as well as in a year long solo show at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2012. In 2016 it was on display at the Brandts Museum in Odense, Denmark. In recent years Milstein has reversed the direction of the camera creating award winning unique aerial images of man-made landscapes that are iconic and emblematic of the modern world.
"Planning, adjusting to the weather, getting the helicopter lined up (with permission), dealing with vibration, wind, lighting — the list goes on. The best lighting is the last rays of sunlight at the end of the day, but you only get a short window so you have to work fast to capture your subjects."
Jeffrey Milstein was born in the Bronx in 1944. He received a degree in architecture from UC Berkley in 1968, and practiced as an architect before turning to photography in 2000.
His photographs have been recently shown in solo shows at Kopeikin Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, and Benrubi Gallery in 2017-2018. The National History Museum of Los Angeles County opened a permanent installation in 2017 which included a large scale reproduction of Milstein’s aerial photograph of Beverly Hills. His aerial photograph of Newark Airport is a cover image for the catalog accompanying the traveling FEP exhibition “Civilization, The Way We Live Now”.
Milstein’s photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe. His photographs have been published in New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Fortune, Time, Harper’s, GQ, European Photography, American Photo, Eyemazing, Graphis, photomagazin, Die Ziet, Liberation, Wired, PDN, Esquire, Conde Naste Traveler, and featured on the CBS evening news with Scott Pelly. Abrams published Milstein’s aircraft work as a monograph in 2007, Monacelli published his extensive body of work from Cuba as a monograph in 2010, and Thames and Hudson published LA NY, a collection of aerial photographs of LA and NY in 2017. ‘Paris From the Air’ will be released by Rizzoli Press in April 2021.
Selected Collections:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles (USA)
Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
The George Eastman House, New York (USA)
The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR (USA)
The Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (USA)