April 11, 2000
Social hour at 6pm, program at 7pm
(By advance reservation only)
Featuring:
Astronaut Dr.Story Musgrave,
Astronaut Dr. Rusty Schweikart,
photographer Michael Light
and special guests.
Compositions and a live mix by Guillermo Galindo.
Program Hosts:
American Society of Media Photographers
The Explorers Club
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Program ScheduleBay Area Aerial Photography HeritageA review of the rich aerial heritage in the Bay Area featuring images by the pioneering Bay Area aerial photographers. This portion of the program developed thanks to special curatorial assistance. Featured work will include work by Clyde Sunderland, Bob Cameron, Hammon Jensen and Wallen photographers and numerous other artists and leaders in the field. Live music mix by Bay Area composer and audio designer Guillermo Gallindo.Dr. Story Musgrave: A Renaissance Man's Aerial VisionDr. Story Musgrave's exceptional vision of the aerial perspective from space and from around the world and his unique involvement in a huge variety of disciplines.Dr. Rusty Schweikart: Sharing The Astronaut's Perspective and Digital Image MakingDr. Schweikart's pioneering role in the development of the Landsat system, and in the development of the first multispectral image capture system, and his role in publishing a runaway best seller of the finest images created in space create the backdrop for this portion of the presentation.Michael Light: An Artist's Perspective on Our Aerial HeritageMichael Light has dedicated the last five years of his life to studying, working, and curating a selection of fine images from the NASA archive. He has applied the latest digital technology to creating outstanding fine art prints and a world class book. His unique artistic vision has enabled him to share with the world some of the most stunning examples of the rich NASA archive. Questions and Answers: A chance to ask our presenters, panelists and special guests your questions. Some Thoughts Regarding the Program
By Herb Lingl
Flight and photography, both distant and yet intense dreams of humans for centuries, have become virtually ubiquitous in our world today. Innovations and developments in both fields have accelerated at an astonishing pace during the last few decades. This program explores the stunning imagery which merges these two disciplines.
The Bay Area has been a center for these developments from the start, and the region has played an even greater role in fueling the innovations during the past few decades, both in flight and image making. From the first motion pictures (created in the Bay Area), to pioneering image making and flight research at NASA Amses, a strong heritage of history making flights at the Oakland Airport, and a history of some of the world's finest photographers, the Bay Area has been a fulcrum of the merging of the disciplines of flight and photography.
The Aerial Visionaries event this April 11 explores both the Bay Area's rich aerial photography heritage, and some of the most pioneering aerial image making that has taken place during the past several decades anywhere in the world. It brings together in one place some of the finest aerial image makers of our times. Image intensive (and short on words), this presentation initially explores the rich aerial image heritage of the Bay Area, then moves into some of the most stunning imagery created at the frontiers of our world.
Among our presenters are Dr. Story Musgrave, honored for his outstanding work both as an astronaut and a photographer, who recently completed working on Disney's Return to Mars motion picture. Dr. Musgrave is a true renaissance man. His degrees include an MD and an MBA, he has flown 17,700 hours in numerous types of civilian and military aircraft, has worked as a mathematician, operations technician, in aerospace medicine and physiology, as a part-time surgeon at the Denver General Hospital, and is an accomplished parachutist with more than 500 free falls. Dr. Musgrave's missions included STS-61 which was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing and repair mission and STS-80 which deployed the Orbiting Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer satellite. Dr. Musgrave's presentation features both space and aircraft acquired imagery optimized to project outstanding detail on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's screen with today's finest projection technology. Story's achievements are so extensive I don't have enough space to list them here, but I welcome you to check out his biography at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/musgrave.html to begin to understand the amazing achievements of Dr. Musgrave.
Also presenting is Dr. Russell Schweickart, who operated the first space borne multi-spectral image gathering system, using four mounted Hasselblad cameras. Rusty was instrumental in the development of the Landsat earth imaging program. Dr. Schweickart served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 9, March 3-13, 1969, logging 241 hours in space and founded the Association of Space Explorers which has a current membership of 259 astronauts and cosmonauts from 28 nations. He is currently developing the GEMnet system, the first LEO communication satellite system to provide regular commercial electronic messaging services on a global basis. I urge you visit his web page at http://www.well.com/user/rs/.
Another portion of our presentation will look at the future of aerial image making with a particular focus on digital technology and the future of aerial image making. One of our featured presenters is Michael Light whose extraordinary exhibit of digital prints of Apollo photographs featured at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art this past fall received wide acclaim. For the past four years Mr. Light worked with the NASA Apollo photographic archives to create the definitive visual survey of the manned lunar explorations including a beautifully printed book entitled Full Moon, published by Random House International. This exhibit is traveling the globe.
Several other special guests have been invited to participate in this special evening. Please check the ASMP Norcal web site at http://www.asmpnorcal.org for the latest details on confirmed participants.
Among the event sponsors are some of the leaders in aerial image making including Hasselblad, which has played a leadership roll in aerial imaging and will be bringing some of the technology it has developed for space, including a Hasselblad camera that was used on the moon.
The event is cohosted by the Explorers Club, which counts among its members some of the world's finest explorers including astronauts Aldrin, Armstrong, Carpenter, Collins, Glenn, Lovell, Schirra, Sullivan and Ride and several cosmonauts. Other members have included President Theodore Roosevelt, the Leakey family, Thor Heyerdahl and aviation pioneers Doolittle, Lindbergh and Yeager. To learn more about the club please visit http://www.explorers.org/.
For more information contact: Herb Lingl, 415.771.2555. |