This chapter analyzes the level of abstraction in aerial photography and photography-related media like films, by referring to the accepted division between a landscape and a map. Limited wideness of the human field of vision, lack of overall sharpness and the incapacity to provide a total image along with the details pointed to the weakness of the human perception in comparison to that of technology. The difference between a direct vision of reality and the visualization of it used to be clear in the split among traditional genres that represent our physical reality in completely different ways: landscape and a map, which depict the reality in completely different ways—as a representation and an abstraction. The invention of aerial photography led to its implementation in military mapping, introducing an abstract vision of the reality itself. Modern art preferred new tools of visualization rather than direct imaging, exploited by landscape artists in the previous century.
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