California Colloquium on Water - Charles C. Benton

Charles C. Benton, Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley A Camera Aloft - California's Wetlands and Streams from a Bird's Perspective




An aerial view offers a fresh perspective of familiar landscapes and in doing so challenges our spatial sensibilities, our grasp of relationships. This playful talk will chronicle ten years of aerial photography from kite-lofted cameras. Professor Benton touches on the history of early aerial photography as well as methods and motivations for using kites as a photographic platform in the current day. Simultaneously an art form and a remote sensing exercise Benton’s low-level approach yields photographs that can be both useful and beautiful.

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