Marilyn Bridges Art

American photographer Marilyn Bridges (Born in 1948) has photographed secular and sacred sites in more than 20 countries, including Mexico, Egypt, France, Peru, Turkey, Britain, Greece, Indonesia Australia, India and Namibia. She lives in New York and is a Fellow of the Explorers Club and is a licensed pilot. She studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1979 and two years later she earned a Master of Fine Arts from the same institute. While in the RIT, her technique was not yet refined, but the eloquent light, the deep shadows, and sense of time unnaturally standing were present in each of her prints. Marilyn was born in an artistic family. Her mother was an artist and she encouraged her a lot. Her father was an amateur photographer. She began her aerial photography career in the Peruvian desert in 1976. Marilyn hired a small airplane that she used for flying and taking photographs. Since she launched her career, her art has been exhibited in more than 300 galleries and museums, including solo exhibitions at the Moscow House of Photography in Russia, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, the International Center of Photography in New York, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Currently framed Marilyn Bridges art sell in large numbers and can be found in many prestigious buildings around the globe. She takes photographs from a helicopter or a small airplane and uses a medium format film camera. Marilyn’s photographic prints are handcrafted, selenium and silver gelatin toned.