"New Line Continued" 2018
Oil on canvas
77' x 101' inches / 196 x 257 cm
Jeffrey Milstein
Education
University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Architecture
Collections
AT&T Collection, Dallas, TX
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Bank of America Collection
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY, New Paltz, NY
Scottish National Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Selected Exhibitions
Rarity Gallery Group Show , Greece, 2022
Image and the Photographic Allusion, Oakland University Art Gallery, MI, Jan 14 – April 3, 2022
Focus On Photography, Foster/White Gallery, February 4 – 20, 2021
Kopeikin Gallery at Intersect Aspen, July 22 – Aug. 22, 2020
14th Annual Pollux Awards, FotoNostrum, Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, March 4 – 29, 2020
Civilization, The Way We Live Now, group exhibition shown at:
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 13, 2019 – Feb. 2, 2020Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China, March 9 – May 19, 2019National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Fall 2018
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, National Galleries of Scotland, June 2, 2018 – January 13, 2019
Becoming Los Angeles, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County permanent exhibition opened May 30, 2018
Leaning Out, Benrubi Gallery (solo), January 25-March 17, 2018
Jeffrey Milstein, Gilman Contemporary Gallery, December 15, 2017-January 26, 2018
Land and Lens, Middlebury College, October 4-December 15, 2017
LANY, Bau-Xi Photo Gallery, December 2-16, 2017
LANY Kopeikin Gallery, LA, (Solo), October 28-December 23, 2017
Shifting Perspectives, Brooklyn Historical Society, May 19 – September 10, 2017
The Dream of Flying, Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Odense, Denmark, March 18, 2016 – September 4, 2016
LANY, Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY, and Kopeikin Gallery; LA (solo), July 9, 2015 – August 22, 2015
Into the Air, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (solo), July 18, 2015 – August 22, 2015
AirCraft: the Jet as Art, Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, (solo), opening July 28, 2015
Jeffrey Milstein, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, (solo), July 2013
High Art: A Decade of Collecting, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Wash. DC, July 2013 – December 2013
AirCraft: the Jet as Art, Reagan National Airport, Washington D.C., (solo), May – December 2013
AirCraft: the Jet as Art, Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto, (solo), September 2012
AirCraft: the Jet as Art, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Wash. DC, Nov 2011– Nov 2012
Biennial International Photographic Cultural Festival, Lishui, China, 2011
Beyond Place, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, (group), December 2009 – March 2010
Looking Up, Ambient Projects, Las Vegas, NV, (group), December 2009 – March 2010
Globetrotting, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY, (group), September – November 2009
Aircraft: The Jet as Art, The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, (solo), August – December 2008
New Typologies, New York Photo Festival, curated by Martin Parr, (group), May 2008
Aircraft: The Jet as Art, Young Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, (solo), February 2008
Aircraft 2, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (solo), April 2007
Aircraft, ego gallery, Barcelona, Spain, (solo), September - October 2006
Flight Plan, Morgan Lehman Gallery New York, NY, (group), 2006
Aircraft, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (2 person), 2005
Cuba, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, (solo), 2005
Best of Show, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, (group), 2005
New Photography, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR, (group), 2005
Work by New Means, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, (group), 2003
Terra, Pietra e Cielo, Comunita di San Leolino, Florence, Italy, (solo) 2001
Color of Light, Klienart/James Art Center Gallery, Woodstock, NY, (solo), 1999
Jeffrey Milstein Photography, Donskoj Gallery, Kingston, NY, (solo), 1997
Awards
Creative Communication Award, winner for Orlando Theme Park aerials, 2021
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2020, 2021
Creative Communication 2020 Award, winner for Paris From the Air, December 2020
Graphis Photography Annual 2021, Silver winner for NOAA Orion P-3 photograph, December 2020
Px3 Prix de la Photographie de Paris, Gold winner in Cityscapes for Paris aerials, September 2020
Creative Quarterly 61, Winner for industry series, winter 2020
Creative Quarterly 60, Winner for Charles de Gaulle series, November 2020
IPA One Shot, Honorable mention, May 2020
Creative Quarterly 59, Runner-up, August 2020
International Photography Awards, May 2020
Communication Arts, April 2020
Applied Arts, 2020 Photography & Illustration Awards, February 2020
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2019, 2020
14th Annual Pollux Awards, winner in Cityscapes for Paris, exhibition in Barcelona March 2020
Graphis Photography Annual 2020, Gold award winner for Paris, January 2020
Creative Quarterly 58, winner for Orlando series, December 2019
Graphis Photography Annual 2019, Gold award winner for LANY, April 2019
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2018, 2019
Communication Arts 2018 Photography Annual, Competition Winner for LANY, July/August 2018
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2017, 2018
Texas Photographic Society, first place winner in Drone & Aerial Photography, 2017
Creative Quarterly 100 Best of 2016, 2017
One Eyeland Awards, silver award in Fine Art, February 2017
International Photography Awards One-Shot Climate Change, First place winner in Machine Category, February 2017
PDN Object of Desire Still-Life Contest, runner up, July 2016
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2015, 2016
Moscow International Foto Awards, Honorable mention in Fine Art-Landscape category, June 2016
Communication Arts 2016 Photography Annual, Competition Winner, July/August 2016
2016 PDN Annual Winner, May 2016
Applied Arts Photography AACE Award Winner, April 2016
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2015, 2016
International Photography Awards, First place in Architecture-Cityscapes, October 2015
The Decoration and Design building 2015 Stars of Design winner, September 16, 2015
Creative Quarterly, Fall, 2015
Applied Arts Magazine, Photography & Illustration Award winner May-June, 2015
Applied Arts Magazine, Photography & Illustration Award, 2015
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2014, 2015
Creative Quarterly 38, winner in Professional Photography, December 22, 2014
Creative Quarterly, 100 Best of 2013, 2014
Communication Arts, July/August 2013, Photography Annual first place prize in the “For Sale” category
PDN Photo Annual, May 2006
PDN Digital Photography Contest, First Place, 2005
Photo Review, Honorable Mention 2005
Books
Paris From The Air, hardcover monograph, Rizzoli Press, April 2021
LANY, hardcover monograph, Thames & Hudson, 2017
Small Dreams: 50 Palm Springs Trailer Homes, hardcover monograph, Schiffer Publishing, 2016
Cuba: Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein, hardcover monograph, Monacelli Press, April 2010
The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age, Sylvia Wolf, Henry Art Gallery & Prestel Press, 2010
AirCraft: The Jet as Art, hardcover monograph, Abrams, May 2007
Selected Publications
Culturamas,15 October 2021
NY Post, 22 August 2021
GEO Wissen, August 2021
Wall Street Journal, 12-13 June 2021
Caviar Affair, Summer 2021
Mosaic Magazine, May/June 2021
Daily Beast, May 2021
CNN (via Instagram), May 2021
Frommer’s, April 2021
CNN Travel, April 2021
Fotomagazin, April 2021
L’Œil de la Photographie, 17 July 2020
Los Echoes Week-End, 10 July 2020
Harvard Business Review, May-June 2020
BAO Bilbao, April 2020
My French Country Home, March/April 2020
GEO France, March 2020
Fortune, March 2020
L’Oeil de la Photographie, September 2019
Wired, July 2019
Avery Review, April 2019
Media Drum, March 2019
Zoom Magazine, March 2019
The Mirror, 7 February 2019
National Galleries Scotland, January 9, 2019
En Voyage – EVA Air Inflight Magazine, November 2018
The Korea Times, November 2018
Musee, No. 20, August 2018
GEO Germany, April 2018
The PhotoBook Journal, April 22, 2018
Professional Photographer, April 2018
Fotomagazin, February 2018
Lonely Planet, January 2018
R&D, January 2018
Widewalls, January 2018
6sqft, January 2018
L’Oeil de la Photographie, January 4, 2018
Vanity Fair, December 2017
Lensculture, November 3, 2017
Lenscratch, October 21, 2017
AOPA, October 21, 2017
Exit Magazine, July 2017
fotomagazin, June 2017
TIME, April 10, 2017
Curbed LA and Curbed NY, February-March 2017
Bloomberg, February 14, 2017
The Creators Project, December 2, 2016
Travel + Leisure, November 2016
GQ, October 10, 2016
Fortune, September 15, 2016
CNN Connect the World, September & November 2016
Fortune 500, June 2016
The New York Times, 16 April 2016
TIME, February 2016
Popular Photography, February 2016
INTERSECTION, Autumn 2015
Focus, October 2015
Times of India: Home & Design Trends, 2015
Foto Magazin special edition, 2015
GQ Magazine South Africa, June, 2015
Foto Magazin, April 4, 2015
EXIT Magazine, 2015
GQ Magazine, March 2015
Harper’s Magazine, February 2015
Los Angeles Times, January 3, 2015
Times Herald-Record, December 27, 2014
TIME Magazine, November 24, 2014
The New York Times, November 14, 2014
Conde Nast Traveller, Cruise Guide, November 2014
Realitaten Magazin, Fall/Winter 2014
Huffington Post, August 18, 2014
Harvard Design Magazine, 2014
Conde Naste Traveler, August 12, 2014
It’s in the air, Thema Luft, Dummy Verlag, 2014
Fortune, March 17, 2014
Io Donna, December 14, 2013
Be Blue Air, October-November, 2013
Chinese Photography, October, 2013
TIME Magazine, September 9, 2013
fotoMAGAZIN, September 2013
TIME Magazine, July 22, 2013
San Francisco Chronicle, July 14, 2013
Slate, May 14, 2013
Daily Mail, May 5 and 15, 2013
Los Angeles Times Arts & Culture, April 27, 2013
Issues in Science and Technology, Cover, Summer 2011
Idiographic, Issue One, Summer 2011
German GQ, March 2011
KILIMANJARO MAGAZINE, Winter 2010
BRIGHT Magazine, cover, June 2010
LIBÉRATION, May 19, 2010
Chronogram Magazine, April 2010
Elle Décor, March 2010
Working Class Magazine, interview by Marcel Dagenais, March 2010
Esquire, September 2009
Photo Review, cover, fall 2009
Vision Magazine, June 2008
Wired Magazine, December 2008
Die Zeit Magazine, cover, January 2008
Creative Review, June 2007
Men’s Vogue, April 2007
Smithsonian Air And Space Magazine, September 2007
Eyemazing, 10 page portfolio, May 2007
LIBÉRATION, March 2007
Esquire Russia, March 2007
European Photography, eight page portfolio, October 2006
Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2005
Pq / Photography quarterly magazine, issue #92, 2005
American Photography 21, 2005
Graphis PhotoAnnual, 2005
photomagazin, cover and six pages, June 2004
Selected Lectures
Eyes In the Air: Mishka Henner, David Maisel and Jeffrey Milstein, presentation and panel discussion, Photo London, 16 May 2019
Meet the Photographer & LANY Book Signing, Foto Care, NYC, 8 November 2018
AirCraft: The Jet As Art, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, 2008
AirCraft: The Jet As Art, NY Photo Festival, 2008
Bio
Jeffrey Milstein is a photographer, architect and pilot. His photographs have been
exhibited and collected throughout the world, and have been featured in
international publications including The New York Times, Time, Esquire, Fortune
(cover), Bloomberg, Harpers, Vanity Fair, GEO, GQ, Paris Match, fotoMAGAZIN
(cover), Liberation, Die Zeit Magazine (cover) Graphis, San Francisco Chronicle
(cover), and Los Angeles Times.
He has won numerous awards, including Graphis Gold Awards, and has been
featured on CNN and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley. His work is in the
collections of museums including The Scottish National Galleries, LACMA, George
Eastman House, Musée de l'Elysée, Portland Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, and
the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where he had a year long solo
show. His books include Paris From the Air, Rizzoli, LA NY, Thames and Hudson,
Aircraft the Jet as Art, Abrams, Cuba, Monacelli, and Small Dreams, Schffer. He is
represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, Benrubi Gallery in New York, Robert
Klein Gallery in Boston, Bau-Xi Gallery in Canada, Messums Gallery in UK, and
ARTITLEDcontemporary in Europe. He lives in Woodstock New York.
Aircraft
Milstein’s first acclaimed photographic series was Aircraft the Jet as Art. A
typological series of perfectly framed shots of aircraft just before landing.
The work was published by Abrams as AirCraft the Jet as Art, in 2005.
Two printings sold out and it is now a collectible. The work was featured in museum shows in Denmark and Scottland, as well as solo shows at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Kansas, and a year-long solo show at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. The work has received numerous awards and been published and collected worldwide.
In 2022 some of the photographs will become part of a permanent exhibit on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, on the mall.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Scottish National Gallery
Cruise Ships
The second series was cruise ships photographed in perfect symmetry from a
helicopter. This award-winning work has been widely published and is featured in
the still traveling FEP show CIVILIZATION: the Way We Live Now. The cruise ship
series was followed up by a small leisure boat typology
Caribbean Princess
Cuba
In addition to the aircraft and aerial work, Milstein has traveled to Cuba 6 times
beginning in 2004, and his Cuba photography was published in 2010 as CUBA,
Jffrey Milstein, Monicelli press. The work was featured on CNN.
Santiago Cuba
Havana Cuba
Cities
Beginning in 2012, (before drones were flying) Milstein began photographing cities,
including airports, public places, amusement parks, and container ports, from small
planes and helicopters. In 2014, the New York Times published his airports in the
story “What the Birds See”. Influenced by his architectural background, he shot
much of his aerial work in a straight-down style of shooting. This is a style he
became known for, and his innovative work was acknowledged with four pages in
the 2019 book FROM ABOVE: The Story of Aerial Photography, a beautiful book of
photographs documenting important moments in the history of aerial photography
from the first aerial photograph taken from a balloon to the present day
Statue of Liberty
Port of New York and New Jersey
Book cover of LA NY, midtown Manhattan
In 2007 Thames and Hudson published his aerial photographs of Los Angeles and
New York in the book LA NY. The aerials have won numerous awards including
Graphis Gold Awards, Communication Arts Awards, and have been published and
exhibited world-wide, including a feature on the CBS Evening news with Scott Pelly.
CIVILIZATION: The Way We Live Now
In 2017 a large photographic show, CIVILIZATION: The Way We Live Now, featuring
a select group of photographers from around the world, curated by FEP under the
direction of William Ewing and Holly Roussell, opened at the Soul Museum of
Modern Art. The show which features Milstein’s photographs, also features his
photograph of Newark International Airport on the cover of the catalog. The show
has been traveling the world, and will be in Italy this fall
Newark Airport on the cover of the catalog
Paris From the Air
In 2019, Milstein received a very rarely given permission to photograph directly over
Paris and Versailles from a helicopter. The work was published by Rizzoli April 2021,
as Paris From the Air. The work and book (now in its third printing), have won many
awards. A solo show of the Paris work was shown at Benrubi Gallery in 2021.
Paris From the Air Book cover
Arc de Triomphe
