Marilyn BridgesVintage Silver Gelatin Photograph Print "Luxor, Las Vegas" Marilyn Bridges Photo, 1995

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Marilyn Bridges (American B.1948)
"Luxor, Las Vegas"
(hotel on the world famous Las Vegas, Nevada strip)
1995
Silver gelatin photo … Read more Marilyn Bridges (American B.1948)
"Luxor, Las Vegas"
(hotel on the world famous Las Vegas, Nevada strip)
1995
Silver gelatin photo print
16" x 20", Frame: 26.25" X 22.25"
Provenance: Corporate Art Directions inc. (prominent law firm)
Not examined out of frame.

Marilyn Christine Bridges (born 1948) is an American photographer noted for her fine art black and white aerial photographs of extraordinary ancient and modern landscapes. She has photographed sacred and secular sites in over 20 countries, including Peru, Mexico, France, Britain, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Australia, Namibia, Indonesia and India. Bridges is a licensed pilot and a Fellow of the Explorers Club. She lives in New York.
Bridges' work has been exhibited in over 300 museums and galleries, including solo exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the Moscow House of Photography in Russia, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and the International Center of Photography in New York. Museums with extensive collections of her work include the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, the International Center of Photography in New York, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia, and the Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi in Belgium. Her photographs have been published in major magazines, including Vanity Fair, Condé Nast Traveler, Time, Life, Archaeology, Smithsonian and The New York Times Magazine. She is the author of eight books.
Marilyn Bridges studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) and a Master of Fine Arts (1981).
She began her career in aerial photography in 1976 in the Peruvian desert. Bridges hired a small airplane to fly over the mysterious Nazca Lines, the largest concentration of earth drawings in the world. “At RIT she printed her Peruvian negatives as her first school project. Her technique was not yet polished, but the deep shadows, the eloquent light, and sense of time standing unnaturally still were present in every print. Bridges already had her style ... Cornell Capa, the dean of American photography, saw her work, admired it, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York gave her an exhibition.”
In 1982, after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bridges flew in a small single-engine Cessna from New York to the Yucatán, where she photographed ancient Mayan sites, some still partially overgrown by the dense jungle. Many of these photographs appeared in her 1986 book Markings: Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes, which also includes photographs of Nazca, Native American archaeological sites, and megalithic monuments in Britain and Brittany. Bridges returned to Peru on a Fulbright Scholarship and published many of the resulting photographs in her 1991 book Planet Peru: An Aerial Journey Through a Timeless Land. In Egypt in 1993-94 she obtained unusual permission to fly over the Valley of the Kings and along the Nile. Leaning out of an old Russian military helicopter, she photographed dozens of ancient sites. The result was a unique collection of aerial photographs in her 1996 book Egypt: Antiquities from Above. Closer to home Bridges photographed ancient and contemporary sites across the United States, from Pre-Columbian mounds in the Midwest and geoglyphs in California, to lava flows in Hawaii and glaciers in Alaska. Many of these photographs are in her 1997 book This Land is Your Land: Across America by Air. Bridges also received a grant from the French government to make aerial photographs of historical and contemporary sites in the Calais region to document the changing environment in connection with the Channel Tunnel, as seen in her 1995 book Vue d’Oiseau. She received a similar grant from the Belgian government to document the landscape of Wallonia from the air, resulting in the 1999 book Vol au-dessus de la Wallonie. Both collections of photographs appeared in solo exhibitions in major museums throughout Europe. She has also photographed the ruins of classical cities and temples in Greece and Turkey. In 2009, she flew over Minoan sites in Crete, and the Onassis Foundation exhibited these photographs in New York City.
Bridges uses a medium format film camera, and takes photographs from a small airplane or helicopter with the door removed, usually from an altitude of 300 to 1000 feet. Her hand signed photographic prints are silver gelatin, and selenium toned.

Awards and honors
Guggenheim Fellowship (in Yucatán), 1982
CAPS Grant, 1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984
Elected Fellow of the Explorers Club, 1988
Fulbright American Scholars Grant (in Peru), 1988–9
Eastman Kodak Photography Grant, 1990
Medal of Arles, Rencontres Internationals de la Photographie, Arles, France, 1991
Mission Photographique Transmanche Grant (France), 1995
Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Grant (Belgium) 1999
Wings Trust, Women of Discovery Award, 2003
Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant (in Crete), 2009

Selected Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA.
Bowdoin Museum of Art, ME
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Columbia University, New York, NY
Cooper Union, New York, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Georgetown University, Washington DC
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
Museum of the City of New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
New School for Social Research, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Smith College Museum of Art, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale Art Museum, CT

International Collections:
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
Centre Regional de la Photographie Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
Frac Lorraine Museum, France
Hellenic Centre of Photography, Athens, Greece
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Museum of Anthropology, Lima, Peru
National Museum of Modern Art, Porto, Portugal
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, London

Select Group Exhibitions

From Land to Air, a Trail of Life Experience, A contemporary gaze in Latin American photography Throckmorton Fine Art.
Lola Alvarez Bravo, Yolanda Andrade, Marilyn Bridges, Margo Davis, Flor Garduño, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Graciela Iturbide, Tina Modotti, Isabel Muñoz, Marta María Perez Bravo, Mariana Yampolsky etc.
Framed Landscapes, Museo Colecciones
Lewis Baltz, Marilyn Bridges, Robert Doisneau, etc.
Landscape and Leisure in the Collection, MoCP
Ansel Adams, Marilyn Bridges, Terry Evans.
TIERRA A Latin American Landscape. Throckmorton Fine Art
Manuel Álvarez Bravo,Mario Algaze,Hugo Brehme,Marilyn Bridges.
New York, Box Galerie
Marilyn Bridges, Larry Fink, Clemens Kalischer, Edward Steichen,
Alfred Stieglitz, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt
Our Land, Akron Art Museum
Ansel Adams, Marilyn Bridges, Masumi Hayashi, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Richard Misrach, Carleton E. Watkins.
Vintage Masters, Throckmorton Fine Art
Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Marilyn Bridges, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martín Chambi, Lucien Clergue, Imogen Cunningham.
Iconic Arizona: Celebrating the Arizona Centennial Phoenix Art
Ansel Adams, Dick Arentz, Barbara Bosworth, Marilyn Bridges, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Andreas Feininger, Lee Friedlander, Charles Jr. Sheeler, Aaron Siskind, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Max Yavno
Women Photographers, ArteF, Switzerland
Berenice Abbott, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Letizia Battaglia, Margaret Bourke-White, Marilyn Bridges, Monique Jacot, Tina Modotti, Mariana Yampolsky
The Altered Landscape, The Polygon Gallery
Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Marilyn Bridges, Edward Burtynsky, Terry Evans, Joan Myers, John Pfahl, Mark Ruwedel, Toshio Shibata. See less