Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5

John Griebsch
Iceland Rivers 309 - Suderland, Iceland (Aerial Archival Digital Photograph)

2016

$3,200
£2,428.09
€2,776.30
CA$4,469.53
A$4,969.51
CHF 2,594.80
MX$60,491.06
NOK 33,108.58
SEK 31,021.16
DKK 20,720.04
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

Archival digital print, Edition of 25 (#360) Image size 19.3 x 29 inches with 2 inch border $2000 Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch border $3200 Image size 32 x 48 inches with 2 inch border $4500 Image size 40 x 60 inches with 2 inch border $6800 The aerial photographs of pilot and photographer John Griebsch capture natural and man-made landforms from a bird's-eye view and turn them into art. Employing his mature and professional sense of composition, gained from a photography career that began at the age of 12, Griebsch here photographs the undulating snowy hills of Iceland, with dramatic, expressive shadows. The cool blue palette creates a serene atmosphere. Artist statement: My aerial photographs present a sense of selective design applied to an extremely small and specific area of the vast landscape over which I fly. I find the need to make geographical sense of the earth, as well as the need to make visual sense of a photograph. I work with ambiguity of scale, the graphic quality of nature and with the hand of man upon the landscape. My images have an abstract and often painterly quality. They are at once factual and interpretive. Familiar landscapes take on a fresh context when airborne. The images require the confluence of several factors. There is the subject – a minuscule segment of the landscape that has captured my interest due to its sense of pattern, order or disarray. There is the essential contribution of light. There is the position and altitude of the airplane, and there is a need to capture the stillness and composition of the moment while moving over the subject at more than seventy miles per hour. My earliest aerial photographs were of ice and farmland, made close to home. The scope of the work opened up on solo flights across the continent in my vintage 1952 Cessna 170B. Those flights are made to find images of landscapes on a grander scale as well as unfamiliar opportunities to find images that take in a small detail. In my most recent work I’ve discovered what might be regarded as historical or documentary themes – some of the images of factories and quarries present relics of the country’s industrial past, while my newer images of the landscape and agriculture denote changes in the scale of farming and open space. The existing body of work, titled Aerias is comprised of more than two hundred images. Collections of my images have been placed in corporate and business settings and in private collections. I started photographing when I was twelve years old. My father taught me to fly when I was fourteen years old. Before taking off on my first solo flight, he admonished me not to go out of sight of the airport. I was soon out of his view and yet from where I was, the airport was always in sight. Such are the perceptions of a photographer who is airborne.

More From This Seller

View All
Iceland Rivers 112 - Suderland, Iceand (Aerial Archival Digital Photograph)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Archival digital print, Edition of 25 (#358) Image size 19.3 x 29 inches with 2 inch border $2000 Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch border $3200 Image size 32 x 48 inches with...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Iceland 244 - Suderland, Iceland (Digital Aerial Photograph)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary aerial photograph of Iceland landscape archival digital print, edition of 25 Image size 19.3 x 29 inches with 2 inch border $2000 Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Underwater Dunes (Aerial Landscape Photograph of Ocean & Sand Dunes)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary aerial landscape photograph of sand dunes and deep green ocean water captured from the photographer's plane over Gulfport, Mississippi Archival digital print, edition 4 ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Woven Woods near Zurich, NY (Archival Digital Aerial Photograph)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Archival digital print, edition of 25 (#161) Image size 19.3 x 29 inches with 2 inch border $2000 Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch border $3200 Image size 32 x 48 inches wi...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Plowed Fields, Hannibal, MO (Minimalist Aerial Landscape Photograph)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary minimalist aerial landscape photograph of a plowed yellow field with dark blue shadow Archival digital print, Edition of 25 (#013) Image size 31 x 39 inches unframed, m...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

Sand Bar & Waves - Martha's Vineyard (Aerial Beach Landscape Photograph)
By John Griebsch
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary color aerial landscape photograph above a beach near Martha's Vineyard, MA Archival digital print, Edition of 25 (#085) Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch border, unf...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

You May Also Like

40x40in. Aerial Photography Earth, Land, Sea - Iceland, LF 2, unframed print
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series of photography of landscapes depicting Earth and its land forms taken from the air. This series of aerial photography captures Earth's beauty taken in remote lan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

40x40in. Aerial Photography Earth, Land, Sea - Iceland, GR 14, unframed print
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series of photography of landscapes depicting Earth and its land forms taken from the air. This series of aerial photography captures Earth's beauty taken in remote lan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

Joy Division, Thjorsa River, Iceland/Shot from Helicopter, Ltd Ed 1/10
By Dinesh Boaz
Located in New York, NY
Joy Division, Thjorsa River, Iceland/Shot from Helicopter, Ltd Ed 1/10. Can hang vertically as well. Archival Print. Mounted on Plexiglass. Floats in white, wooden frame. with...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

David Burdeny - Skjalfandi River II, Iceland, Photography 2020, Printed After
By David Burdeny
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Burdeny (b. 1968. Winnipeg, Canada) graduated with a Masters in Architecture and Interior Design and spent the early part of his career practicing in his field before establish...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

40x40in. Aerial Photography Earth, Land, Sea - Iceland, 1, unframed print
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a new series of photography of landscapes depicting Earth and its land forms taken from the air. This series of aerial photography captures Earth's beauty taken in remote lan...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

C Print

ORGANIC LANDSCAPES 5 by Alexandre Manuel (Aerial Photography)
By Alexandre Manuel
Located in New York City, NY
Series: ORGANIC LANDSCAPE AERIAL All available sizes and editions: 40" x 30" editions of 10 60" x 45" editions of 5 72" x 54" editions of 3 Archival Pigment Print on Fine Art Baryt...
Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment