Taking to the Air - Ford, Lily
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The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Throughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground has made for a spectacle of flight, with sizeable crowds gathering for eighteenth-century balloon launches and early twentieth-century air shows. 'Taking to the Air' tells the history of flight through the eye of the spectator, and later, the passenger. Focusing on moments of great cultural impact,…mehr

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The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Throughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground has made for a spectacle of flight, with sizeable crowds gathering for eighteenth-century balloon launches and early twentieth-century air shows. 'Taking to the Air' tells the history of flight through the eye of the spectator, and later, the passenger. Focusing on moments of great cultural impact, this book is a visual celebration of the wonder of flight, based on the large and diverse collection of print imagery held by the British Library. It is a study of how flight has been thought and pictured.
Autorenporträt
Lily Ford is Deputy Director at the Derek Jarman Lab. She produced the feature-length documentary The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger for the Lab and continues to work on films and research there. She completed her PhD on aerial views and the culture of flight in 1920s Britain in 2015, then worked as Researcher in Residence at the Ben Uri Art Gallery and Museum, and Cultural Engagement Fellow at Birkbeck. Her illustrated cultural history of flight, Taking to the Air, will be published by the British Library in 2018, and she is currently working on a film essay about women in aviation factories in the 1910s and 1920s.