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Air to Air

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"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.

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.

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?

this is an amazing piece of work by an amazing photographer. recommended for any aviation enthusiast.

It's full of nice pictures in a large format. Nothing about it jumped out to me as something I would be willing to pay full price for. Luckily it's available used for only a few bucks. It makes a nice coffee table book if you like aviation.