Research Catalog

Title

Aerofoto / coordinación editorial, Ana María Ruiz Vilà.

Publication

Col. Nápoles : Fundación ICA ; Col. Lomas de Sotelo : Fundación Pedro Meyer, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ruiz Vilà, Ana María
• Fundación ICA, issuing body.
• Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, host institution.

Description

163 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, plans; 25 cm

Summary

The Compañía Mexicana Aerofoto was a Mexican company specialized in aerial photography in Mexico and Latin America. Founded in 1930 by the Mexican pilot Luis Struck the company accumulate a collection of close to 1 million images in its 58 years of operation managed. The company was merged with Grupo ICA in 1947. The exhibition include photos taken from the sky with hot air balloons, aircraft and drones by photographers Santiago Arau Pontones, Francisco Mata, Javier Hinojosa, Adam Wiseman, Francisco Laresgoiti, Federico Pardo, Marco Pacheco, Josh Begley and Pablo López Luz, along with a selection of the photographic collection of the Compañía Mexicana de Aerofoto in custody of the Fundación ICA.

Subjects

• Aerial photographs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Mexico > Mexico City Region
• Mexico > Aerial photographs > Exhibitions
• Mexico > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
• Compañía Mexicana Aerofoto History > Exhibitions
• Compañía Mexicana Aerofoto Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Aerial photography > Mexico > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Aerial photographs.
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Icaro, fotografía desde el aireʺ held at Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos in Mexico City, March 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161).

Contents

Presentación / Bernardo Quintana Isaac -- Palimpsesto -- Planificación -- Aerofotografía -- Compañía Mexicana Aerofoto -- Geomática -- Drones : vehículos aéreos no tripulados -- Icaro : fotografia desde el aire -- Documentación fotográfica.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-6547

ISBN

• 9786079580179
• 6079580179

LCCN

2018370859

OCLC

1027803439

Title

Aerofoto / coordinación editorial, Ana María Ruiz Vilà.

Publisher

Col. Nápoles : Fundación ICA ; Col. Lomas de Sotelo : Fundación Pedro Meyer, 2017.

Edition

Primera edición.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-161).

Added Author

Ruiz Vilà, Ana María, editor.

Fundación ICA, issuing body.

Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, host institution.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-6547