(Newark, New Jersey, 1948 - )
1982
Gelatin silver print
15 x 18 7/8 in. (38.1 x 48.0 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Dr. George Thomsen
2009.340
Bridges has pioneered the use of aerial photography in the fine arts with a focus on ancient earthworks and their modern, often industrial, counterparts. βIt was as if the landscape was a huge canvas,β Bridges explains. βI would take sections of it and work with it.β There are more than 70 Indian mounds in Ohio, most of which are burial sites of the Adena and Hopewell tribes.