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Product Identifiers

PublisherNai Uitgevers / Publishers Stichting

ISBN-109462084882

ISBN-139789462084889

eBay Product ID (ePID)13038696370

Product Key Features

Book TitleGerco De Ruijter: Grid Corrections

Number of Pages452 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2019

TopicIndividual Photographers / Monographs, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, United States / MidWest / General, Subjects & Themes / Aerial

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography

AuthorGerco De Ruijter

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight40.9 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width8.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal779.3677

SynopsisIn the late 18th century, surveyors divided the Midwestern United States into the Jefferson Grid: a system of neat, one-by-one-mile squares. But because the earth is round, the lines tapered to the north. Therefore the grid had to be corrected: every 20 miles, grid corrections brought theory and practice back together. Pilot and aerial photographer Gerco de Ruijter (born 1961) first spotted these small bends and T-junctions while completing a residency in Wichita; then, with the help of Google Earth, De Ruijter found thousands of these corrections. Presenting De Ruijter's selection of over 250 photocollage grid corrections--snowed under or dried up, in cities and in deserts--and featuring an exceptional design by Irma Boom, this publication is a work of art and monument in one, a testimony to the human urge to design the landscape and the ways in which nature responds to that urge., In the late 18th century, surveyors divided the Midwestern United States into the Jefferson Grid: a system of neat, one-by-one-mile squares. But because the earth is round, the lines tapered to the north. Therefore the grid had to be corrected: every 20 miles, grid corrections brought theory and practice back together. Pilot and aerial photographer Gerco de Ruijter (born 1961) first spotted these small bends and T-junctions while completing a residency in Wichita; then, with the help of Google Earth, De Ruijter found thousands of these corrections. Presenting De Ruijter s selection of over 250 photocollage grid corrections snowed under or dried up, in cities and in deserts and featuring an exceptional design by Irma Boom, this publication is a work of art and monument in one, a testimony to the human urge to design the landscape and the ways in which nature responds to that urge., A work of art and monument in one, this publication features a selection of more than 250 of De Ruijter's photo-collage grid corrections--snowed under or dried up, in cities and in deserts.erts.

LC Classification NumberTR810

Text byDelpeut, Peter