Marilyn Bridges

Marilyn Bridges (born, 26 December 1948) is an American photographer noted for her aerial photographs of ancient and modern landscapes of extraordinary and often religious sites.

Bridges was born in Newark, New Jersey. She studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1979 and her Master of Fine Arts in 1981.^[1] She started her photography career by working for travel magazines in 1970 and photographing Brazil in 1972. In 1976 Bridges became interested in aerial photography when she photographed the Nazca plain, Peru.^[2]

Awards and honours

• Guggenheim Fellowship 1982
• CAPS Grant 1983
• NEA Grant 1984
• Fulbright Grant 1988–9
• Makedonas Kostas Award (Greece) 1989
• Elected fellow of the Explorers Club 1988
• Medal of Arles, Recontres Internationals de la Photographie, Arles, France 1991
• WINGS TRUST Award 2003

Publications

• Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes (New York: Aperture, Inc., 1986)
• The Sacred & Secular: A Decade of Aerial Photography (New York: International Center of Photography, 1990)
• Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through A Timeless Land (New York: Aperture, Inc., 1991)
• Vue d'oiseau, la mission photographique transmanche (Douchy, France: Centre Regional de la Photographie, 1996)
• Egypt: Antiquities from Above (Boston: Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., 1996)
• Sacred & Secular: The Aerial Photography of Marilyn Bridges [CD-ROM] (New York: The Voyager Company, 1996)
• This Land Is Your Land (New York: Aperture, 1997)
• Vol au-dessus de la Wallonie (Charleroi, Belgium: Editions MET, Musee de la photographie a Charleroi, Belgium, 1999)

References

External links

• Marilyn Bridges Photography