Air to Air [Hardcover]

Paul Bowen (Author, Photographer), Arnold Palmer (Foreword)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: North Shore Press (KS); First Edition, edition (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966509501
• ISBN-13: 978-0966509502
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 10.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,488,623 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous aerial photography, August 26, 2001

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Brian Cerveny "brianc400" (Buffalo Grove, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Air to Air Volume II (Hardcover)

"Air to Air" contains some of the most beautiful air-to-air photography I have seen. This book is quite different from Geza Szurovy's "Executive Jets", recommended by another reviewer below. To compare the two is to compare apples and oranges. "Executive Jets" is about the airplanes as airplanes. The descriptions are technical and factual, and the photos are mostly meant to show features of the planes. There are a handful of interestingly composed photos, but that's not what this book is for. "Air to Air" is much more about the airplanes as pieces of art, and the photography certainly speaks to that. You still learn something about the airplanes, but the text serves more to personify than to explain the airplanes. This is a great coffee table book. Don't expect to take this book to the local air field for identifying aircraft, because that is not the purpose of this book. As for the quality, I find it outstanding. The quality of the print is superior, and the book is itself is nearly a piece of art. And as for the expense, to get a collection of interesting and unusual photography like this must have been massively expensive. In this book you see only a handful of the dozens or hundreds of photos of each plane that Bowen surely shot to get the effects he wanted. Flight time is costly! I highly recommend this book to people who can appreciate aircraft as artwork and who enjoy beautiful photographic composition.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Air to Air, May 16, 2000

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John Ho - See all my reviews

This review is from: Air to Air (Hardcover)

What a collection of aviation photography, some of the most breath taking shots I have ever seen, sure to be a collector's book. The book feature a wonderful collection of aircraft photo Begain with Challenger Jet, and finish with Agusta helicopters. Mostly executive jets, with some light aircrafts and helicopters. Forward by Arnold Palmer.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but overpriced, July 24, 2000

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Robert Hindla (Bohemia, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Air to Air (Hardcover)

If you like Paul Bowen pictures, buy "Executive Jets" by Geza Szurovy, not this one. That book only costs about fourteen dollars and it's way better printed and layed out. (Believe it or not.) Why is it that when I look at the pictures in this book in artifical lighting they look better than they do in full sunlight? I can't quite figure this out. It's an interesting question, because I had to evaluate it in a bookstore, not where I peruse many photo-folios, in full sunlight. Despite it's price, the quality of reproduction is not there. It makes me a little uneasy to think that I didn't quite get what I thought I was getting.

The photos in this collection are not the best work of Bowen, to judge from the Szrovy book, which concentrates only on turbine-powered aircraft.

Who picked the shots? They're bland and predictable, except for one picture of a Lear climbing nearly vertically into the sky.

There are few full-bleed pictures, so why is this book so expensive?