Paris from the Air
JEFFREY MILSTEIN: PARIS: FROM THE AIR
Woodstock exhibition:
Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce Jeffrey Milstein’s Woodstock exhibition in conjunction with his new publication “Paris: From the Air” Very few photographers have ever been granted the privilege of capturing Paris from the air, and in Milstein’s skilled hands, the familiar is transformed. His distinctive style—straight down—leads to fresh insights of the urban design of this great city. The Place des Vosges unfolds as a huge green butterfly in the midst of uniform lines of blue-gray rooftops. The Place Victor Hugo, a nexus point where 10 streets meet, looks out at you like a solitary, unblinking eye. The tip of the Tour Eiffel stretches up like the stigma of a delicate, iron flower. Very fittingly, Paris from above is one giant work of art.
Including breathtaking views of the Arc de Triomphe, Musée du Louvre, Jardin des Tuileries, Hôtel des Invalides, Tour Montparnasse, Centre Pompidou, the Seine, and La Défense, among many other loca- tions, Milstein’s highly detailed images bring these unmatched aerial vistas of Paris to life. A portfolio of images of the gardens and buildings of Château de Versailles, Louis XIV’s great palace, is also included.
WOODSTOCK, NY – January 29, 2021 – Jeffrey Milstein has been awarded WINNER in the Photo Book category in the 2020 Creative Communication Award (C2A) for Paris: From the Air.
C2A’s mission is to enhance appreciation of the most excellent campaigns, creative solutions and ideas worldwide. The Creative Communication Award celebrates creativity, excellence and outstanding ideas in communication design, advertising and digital media.
The jurors praised this year’s winners for their creative excellence and world-class talent, and for their important contribution to the crucial role creative design plays in the world today. Hossein Farmani, C2A’s President, commented, “To say this has been a demanding and complicated year is a considerable understatement, but one thing is sure — the winners of this year’s C2A have shared some incredible projects, reminding us of the power of inspirational creative communication, even in difficult times.”
https://www.c2award.com/winners/c2a/2020/4748/
JEFFREY MILSTEIN is a photographer, architect, and pilot. His photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe, and have been featured in publications such as the New York Times, Time, Esquire, Fortune, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, GEO, GQ, Paris Match, Liberation, Graphis, and Die Zeit. He has won numerous awards, including Graphis Gold Awards, and has been featured on CNN and CBS. His work is in the collections of museums including the Scottish National Galleries, LACMA, George Eastman Museum, Musée de l’Elysée, Portland Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where he had a yearlong solo show. His other books include LA NY, Aircraft, Cuba, and Small Dreams. He is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Benrubi Gallery in New York, Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, Bau-Xi Gallery in Canada, and ARTITLEDcontemporary in Europe. He lives in Woodstock, New York.
Woodstock, NY-based Jeffrey Milstein was born in Los Angeles and received his BA in architecture from UC Berkeley IN 1968 before turning to photography. Milstein’s passion for flight led to his most famous series of images of aircraft taken just before they land, when the plane is perpendicular to the camera’s frame. Using archival pigment print and processing techniques that isolate the aircraft in the image, Milstein focuses on color and design to achieve maximum clarity in his images, which the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum mounted in a solo exhibition entitled AirCraft: The Jet as Art in 2011.
Milstein also reverses the focus in such series as Flying Over New York, Flying Over LA, and Flying Over Container Ports to create panoramic images of images that are by turns iconic and emblematic of the modern world, which his images of Cuba and India are more intimate, though equally as vibrant in their treatment of color and composition.
Milstein’s work has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals, including CNN Money, the Daily Mail, Elle Décor, Esquire, Fortune, Time, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Wired. His work can be seen at LACMA, the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC, the George Eastman House, and the Akron Art Museum.
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