PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
Latest editorial
Artist from the air
JOHN GREEN looks forward to the first exhibition in Britain of a great landscape photographer
LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
Chris Searle speaks to US pianist RAN BLAKE
The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
You hardly realise you are looking at images of our world when gazing upon Alex MacLean's aerial photographs.
These are not simply "photos from the air" like the ones often produced by run-of-the-mill commercial photographers. McLean's have the compelling simplicity and beauty of great abstract art.
MacLean is a US photographic artist, best known for the aerial photography in which he has specialised. The apparent simplicity of his photos betrays an incredibly keen eye for the extraordinary, the aesthetic and the graphic.
Similar stories
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
ALAN MORRISON explores, and recommends, a remarkable collection of poems that explore war photography with the moral responsibility of a documentary film-maker
KIM CULLEN enjoys the survey of social work and working-class lives to be found in the superb work of British-Jamaican photographer Sandra George
KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play