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Cameron & Company/Metreon
Contact: Gene Kahn
415.902.6448

“Environmental Journey” Aerial Photography Exhibition Launches at Metreon in San Francisco

Robert Cameron’s Exhibition, “Environmental Journey: Aerial Photography of the Pacific Rim,” opens this week at Metreon in San Francisco for a three-month run. This major show of mural-size photographs combines dramatic vistas -- viewable only from a helicopter -- with a statement about the quality of the air and water that sustains the Pacific from Anchorage to San Diego.

The fifty-five works of art in this exhibition range in size up to six feet by ten feet. They are digitally produced and printed on archival paper by Color 3 lab in San Francisco – a pioneer in this new field. Here are giant cane field fires in Maui, Hawaii, mountain climbers on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite, and a gray whale off the coast at La Jolla. Viewers can walk right up to a photograph of a waterfall with the feeling they are a part of it.

The incredible detail in these giant images results from two technologies: the gyrostabilizers that hold the camera steady in these “tripods in the sky,” and the color correction made possible by digital reproduction. The result is a visual experience that puts “giant screen TV” to shame.

The exhibition has been specially designed for the ground-floor hall at the corner of Fourth and Mission Streets, right at the entrance to Metreon. Tickets to the show, only $5 for adults and free to children with adults, include a take-home catalog of all fifty-five murals. An adjoining gift store offers moderately priced, full-color books from which these photographs were selected. Over a career of more than forty-five years, Robert Cameron has authored and produced fifteen books of aerial photographs, ranging from “Above San Francisco” to “Above Paris” and “Above Washington, D.C.”

Exhibition hours are 12 Noon to 8 P.M. daily. Call 415.902.6448 for further details and to arrange group showings.