John Crawford is a New Zealand-based photographer who did a lot of commercial work back then. He spent much of his time in helicopters and light aeroplanes, and became fascinated with looking at the world from a bird's eye perspective.
All images were meticulously planned. In a small aircraft, John Crawford looked at the landscape in search of details of scenarios where I could put a naked body. After he was making some reference images and draw them later, the figure and the props that would need. A series of photographs "Aerial Nude" photographer's fascination comes from New Zealand by the "vision of the birds, looking down a vertical perspective," said the P3. Because of all the logistics involved in the process, Crawford made only one picture per day. Each one was precise: just put the model in the desired place, fly up to 600 feet and make the image. All of no more than 10 minutes. None of the pictures - made a 35mm film with a Nikon F3 and a telephoto 180mm - was manipulated in Photoshop, guaranteed. Now, John Crawford will work on a series like this, where the model will be the 27 year old daughter, Amelia. "In the first image, she'll be lying on a plane 747."
