Jeffrey Milstein

Flying an airplane was one of my earliest dreams. Building and flying all the model planes I could afford, I became intimately familiar with aircraft design, and at the age of 17, I received my pilot’s license.

Heavy metal, as the wide body jets are known, is the ultimate achievement in engineering and design. While aircraft evoke many different feelings, since 9/11, no one can ever again look at a large airliner without the distant but ominous memory of how easily they were turned into weapons by a small band of terrorists. They are a symbol of how vulnerable our highly technological society has become.

In this portfolio I explore a typology of the varied cruciform shapes of jet aircraft flying precisely overhead as if frozen in space. I have decontextualized these highly detailed photographs to express the complexity and beauty of form. That these giant conglomerations of aluminum, can gracefully lift from earth is amazing. That they can return safely some hours later on another part of the globe is even more amazing. My aircraft photograph.

Selected Exhibitions

Jeffrey Milstein Photography, Donskoj Gallery, Kingston, NY (solo) 1997
Color of Light, Klienart/James Art Center Gallery, Woodstock, NY (solo) 1999
Terra, Pietra e Cielo, Comunita di San Leolino, Florence, Italy (solo) 2001
Work by New Means, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (group) 2003
One Foot after Another, Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR (group) 2005
New Photography, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR (group) 2005
Cuba, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo) 2005
Best of Show, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA (group) 2005
Aircraft, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2 person) 2005
Flight Plan, Morgan Lehman Gallery New York, NY (group) 2006
Aircraft, ego gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo) September/October 2006
Aircraft 2, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles April 21, 2007

Selected Publications and Awards

Photo Review Competition, 2003
Photomagazin, cover, and six pages, June, 2004
Chronogram Arts Magazine, cover, 2004, 2005
Graphis PhotoAnnual, 2005
American Photography 21, 2005
Photo Review Honorable Mention 2005
PDN Annual Digital Photography Contest, First place, November  2005
PDN Photo Annual May, 2006
European Photography, Eight page portfolioOctober 2006
Eyemazing, 10 page portfolio May 2007
Men's Vogue, May 2007
AirCraft, a hardcover book of 60 color photographs Abrams, May 1, 2007

Collections

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY Center fo

r Photography, Woodstock, NY
PRICES

64x64 cm (20x20 in) - Edition of 15
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Edition from 6 to 10: 3200 €
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