BOSTON, MA.- TO FLY: Contemporary Aerial Photography (Boston University Art Gallery, September 7, 2007 – October 28, 2007) aims to survey the contemporary art photography movement of aerial photography, against the backdrop of the scientific and historical imagery that preceded it. Curated by Kim Sichel, a Professor of Art History at Boston University, this global exhibition looks at contemporary aerial photographers from a variety of countries. Included is Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri, who surveys Rome and other cities from a helicopter, and Esteban Piscatore who photographs the landscapes of South America using a kite with a camera mounted beneath it. Other photographers in the exhibition are Terry Evans, Frank Gohlke, Adriel Heisey, Emmet Gowin, Peter Goin, David Maisel, and in the most abstract of the current group of photographers, Alex McLean flies his plane over a variety of places that are reduced to geometrical colored patterns.

This exhibition will include approximately 50 photographs, concentrating on the contemporary image-makers but including scientific and historical imagery to place them in context. The 100-page color catalogue will include an essay by Kim Sichel, tracing the history, technology and aesthetics of aerial imagery while presenting the contemporary figures. Individual artist biographies and catalogue entries will be provided by the students in the Curatorial Seminar of spring 2006 taught by Professor Sichel.