اليكس ماكلين
亚历克斯·麦克莱恩
АЛЕКС МАКЛИН

source: fotointern

Die Bilder von Alex MacLean haben etwas Heilsames an sich. Was auf Bodenebene chaotisch erscheint, bringen sie in eine neue Ordnung. Der Fotograf hat fast die ganzen USA und Europa von oben gesehen und zeigt uns die Strukturen der westlichen Lebensart, erzählt im Überblick vom Entstehen und Vergehen, vom Pflanzen und Ernten, vom motorisierten Bewegungsdrang des Menschen und wie sich dieser Bahn bricht. Der abstrakte Begriff der Raumordnung macht Sinn, in Anbetracht der vogelperspektivischen Tatsachen.
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source: landslides

MacLean’s fascination with landscape began with annual family visits to the Thousand Islands at the head of the St. Lawrence River in upstate New York. His interests continued through college, and after graduating from Harvard College in 1969 and earning a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1973, MacLean received his commercial pilot license in 1975. During an economic downturn, which made jobs in the design field hard to find, MacLean established his own company, Landslides Aerial Photography.

Although MacLean began to shoot aerial photographs for university libraries, he eventually acquired municipal, institutional, corporate, and private clients. His first plane was a Cessna 172, which he bought in 1980; today he flies his Flight Design CT, based at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts.

MacLean has flown over most of the United States and parts of Europe. His photographs have been exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia and have been the subject of four books. His work has been recognized with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and the American Academy in Rome, which awarded him the 2003–2004 Prix de Rome in Landscape Architecture. MacLean maintains a studio and lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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source: lumas

Alex S. MacLean’s (*1947) pictures have something healing about them. They bring to order to what seems at ground level chaotic. The photographer has seen nearly all of the US and Europe from above and shows us the structures of Western lifestyle, told as an overview of growth and decay, of planting and harvesting, of our need to be motorized and on the move and how such a course ends. The abstract concept of spatial order makes sense with the advantage of a bird’s-eye view. MacLean reveals the difference between the natural and the constructed aspects of the environment and most recently took photos of aspects of climate change, taking us with each image to a place we think we know but have never seen like this.

MacLean is a trained architect whose excellent sense of space also qualifies him beyond that field, particularly in landscape architecture. Over the last years he has published numerous collections of photos; his works have been shown across the US, including at the AIPAD Show Miami, as well as extensively at the Arles photo festival. He keeps a studio in Cambridge and lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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source: revistatrip

O norteamericano Alex Maclean largou para trás sua vocação de arquiteto para se dedicar a uma paixão lancinante: a fotografia aérea. Depois de se formar em Harvard, ele obteve seu brevê de piloto civil e passou a procurar os padrões e repetições impressionantes quando vistos de cima. Assim, começou uma série ainda em progresso que registra paisagens naturais e urbanas sob a ótica do piloto/fotógrafo. Os objetos de sua arte estão sempre mudando, mas sua opção favorita é sempre a presença humana em paisagens naturais. As pessoas em miniatura se integram à cena, trabalhando conceitos como a insignificância perante o tamanho do planeta e o impacto de sua presença como parte viva do meio ambiente que nos circula. MacLean é co-autor de mais de uma dezena de livros, incluindo o maior sucesso Over: The American Landscape At The Tipping Point. O fotógrafo participou de dúzias de exposições coletivas nos EUA e na Europa e mantém em seu site oficial uma coleção de seus melhores trabalhos.
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source: rugurulivejournal

Алек Маклин (Alex MacLean, род. в 1947 г.) – американский фотохудожник, преимущественно известный своими аэрофотографиями. На собственном эксперементальном самолете пролетел над большей частью Соединненых Штатов, фотографируя увиденное.

Алекс Маклин в 1969 году получил степень бакалавра, и продолжив обучение, в 1973 году степень магистра архитектуры степень в Гарвардском Высшей Школе Дизайна . В это время он заинтересовался воздушной фотографией и в 1975 году Маклин получил лицензию коммерческого пилота.

Как воздушный фотограф, Маклин отобразил историю и эволюцию земли: огромные сельскохозяйственные пейзажи, города, изменения, вызванные вмешательством человека в природные процессы. Его мощные визуальные образы дают ключ к пониманию отношений между природной и антропогенной средой.

Маклин является автором десяти книг, его фотографии были многократно экспонированы в Соединенных Штатах, Канаде, Европе и Азии. Многие из его работ находятся в частных, публичных и университетских коллекциях. В настоящее время он проживает в Линкольне, штат Массачусетс.