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John GriebschQuarry Near Louisburg (Industrial Aerial Grey Stone Landscape Photograph)2006
2006
About the Item
Contemporary aerial landscape photograph of a light grey stone quarry with dark dramatic shadows shot by photographer, John Griebsch, while flying his plane over Louisburg, NC
Archival digital print, edition 2 of 25
Image size: 28 x 39 inches
Framed size: 37.25 x 48.25 x 1 inches, black molding with 4-ply white mat and non-glare plexi
Signed and editioned, lower left
Available and made to order is additional sizes (unframing pricing):
Image size 19.3 x 29 inches with 2 inch border $2200
Image size 26 x 39 inches with 2 inch border $3200
Image size 32 x 48 inches with 2 inch border $4500
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, here Griebsch captures dark shadows of a tiered light gray stone quarry, creating an almost abstract, tapestry-like display when seen from above.
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.
- Creator:John Griebsch (American)
- Creation Year:2006
- Dimensions:Height: 37.25 in (94.62 cm)Width: 48.25 in (122.56 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU22712093402
John Griebsch
John Griebsch is an aerial photographer and pilot whose aerial landscapes depict natural and man-made landforms. His images of the American landscape have been made from his vintage Cessna 170, in which he has logged more than 100,000 miles. At present there are 300 images in his series of work, titled, AERIAS.
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