Taken over a fifty-year period with a camera meant for taking spy photographs, Bradford Washburn's pictures of Alaska's mountains are high in detail.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Bradford Washburn’s aerial photographs of Alaska’s mountains are art.
Taken over a fifty-year period with a camera meant for taking spy photographs, the pictures are high in detail. That’s because Washburn was a cartographer — a map maker. The photographs were taken to map the mountains.“Alaska From Above: The Art of Bradford Washburn” is an exhibit of some of Washburn’s work in Alaska. It is on display at the Anchorage Museum through next year.
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