Aerial Quote by Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite…

— Sarah Parcak

There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you…

— Sarah Parcak

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these…

— Sebastiao Salgado

So much of what we know, and what we think we know, about the land has first passed through someone's lens. The interesting thing…

— Mark Klett

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

— Sarah Parcak

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

— Robert Adams

The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes…

— Sarah Parcak

In Egypt, I do survey work on the ground. That's really the most important part of using satellite images. You know, it helps us…

— Sarah Parcak

Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for…

— Judith Butler

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the…

— John Pfahl

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig…

— John Dykstra