"Planning, adjusting to the weather, getting the helicopter lined up (with permission), dealing with vibration, wind, lighting — the list goes on. The best lighting is the last rays of sunlight at the end of the day, but you only get a short window so you have to work fast to capture your subjects."
Jeffrey Milstein was born in the Bronx in 1944. He received a degree in architecture from UC Berkley in 1968, and practiced as an architect before turning to photography in 2000.
His photographs have been recently shown in solo shows at Kopeikin Gallery, Bau-Xi Gallery, and Benrubi Gallery in 2017-2018. The National History Museum of Los Angeles County opened a permanent installation in 2017 which included a large scale reproduction of Milstein’s aerial photograph of Beverly Hills. His aerial photograph of Newark Airport is a cover image for the catalog accompanying the traveling FEP exhibition “Civilization, The Way We Live Now”.
Milstein’s photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe. His photographs have been published in New York Times, LA Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Fortune, Time, Harper’s, GQ, European Photography, American Photo, Eyemazing, Graphis, photomagazin, Die Ziet, Liberation, Wired, PDN, Esquire, Conde Naste Traveler, and featured on the CBS evening news with Scott Pelly. Abrams published Milstein’s aircraft work as a monograph in 2007, Monacelli published his extensive body of work from Cuba as a monograph in 2010, and Thames and Hudson published LA NY, a collection of aerial photographs of LA and NY in 2017. ‘Paris From the Air’ will be released by Rizzoli Press in April 2021.
Selected Collections:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles (USA)
Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. (USA)
The George Eastman House, New York (USA)
The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR (USA)
The Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (USA)