Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically “feel” visually right, though they are factually wrong. Often employing an elevated viewpoint (the objective but haunting “God’s-eye view” of aerial photography and satellite imaging), Maier-Aichen creates idealized, painterly landscapes that function like old postcards.

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Rejecting Tradition

Florian Maier-Aichen

2:38
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Rejecting Tradition

Florian Maier-Aichen

7/9/2010

Infrared Landscapes

Florian Maier-Aichen

2:48
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Infrared Landscapes

Florian Maier-Aichen

5/28/2010

Fantasy

54:30

10/14/2009

Florian Maier-Aichen in "Fantasy"

13:43
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10/14/2009