Frank Lloyd Wright Photo Gallery
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5746-00110 - Monona Terrace, Madison WI
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5799-00059 - Monona Terrace, Madison WI
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5847-00372 - Lykes, Phoenix AZ
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5847-00036 - ASU Gammage Auditorium, Mesa AZ
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5847-00301 - Price House, Phoenix AZ
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5785-00035 - Arch Obeler House, Malibu CA
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5777-00029-Taliesin East, Spring Green WI
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5783-00005 - Coonley House, Riverside IL
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5841-00125 - Davidson House, Buffalo, NY
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FLW Fact Sheet March 10 2016
Aerial photography of Frank Lloyd Wright structures. The missing viewpoint. A rare, if not unique, compendium of Frank Lloyd Wright sites, concentrated around Chicago and expanding as seasons, assignments, and finances permit. The newest images were taken with a high quality digital medium format Hasselblad and a 50mb CMOS Canon 5DS.
I began incidentally collecting Frank Lloyd Wright aerials while on assignment flights in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. As my interest in the subject grew, I intensified my efforts to cover local and notable sites. From what my research produced, there was not a centralized, extensive aerial stock extending throughout the genre until Tigerhill came along. This is unique enough to be interesting.
The casual has become a collection that could be exhibited in a museum, perhaps with curatorial guidance. It grows as I add new sites. 93 sites flown to date. A good start on an exhibit already.
- Illinois: Oak Park Frank Lloyd Wright compound, Robie, Coonley, Dana Thomas, Laurent, North Shore, Charnley, Winslow, and many others.
- Wisconsin: Johnson and Wingspread several times, Taliesen East, Monona Terrace, and Greek Church twice, and many others.
- Buffalo NY: Graycliffe, Martin.
- Mill Run PA: Fallingwater in Autumn foliage.
- Springfield OH: Westcott House
- Iowa: Qausqueton, Walter; Cedar Rapids (Marion), Grant.
- St Louis MO: Kraus, Pappas.
- Phoeniz area AZ: Taliesen West, Gammage Auditorium, and eight others.
- Burbank area CA: Arch Obeler, Hollyhock, and seven others.
- Future acquisitions may take years to fly as assignments, finances, weather, leaf-off conditions and other factors dictate. A sponsor or patron certainly may accelerate this.
Near term sites:
- TX: Houston and Dallas.
- CA: San Francisco from Walker House in Carmel to the Marin Civic Center in San Rafael.
- FL: Florida Southern College in Lakeland.
- SC: Auldbrass Plantation in Beaufort.
Longer term:
- Scattered locations around the country, in the Atlantic Seaboard, Montana, Idaho, Oklahoma, and others.
- Hawaii.
- Europe.
- Japan.
- Refly some notable sites more deliberately for dramatic lighting: sunrise, sunset, landscape and interior lighting at night.
- Suggestions for priorities and poorly defined sites are welcome.
- Telephoto lenses and superb cameras yield good results by airplane in many cases. Some places are heavily wooded and are hidden until leaf-off conditions, if ever. Sometimes helicopter are appropriate. Always site specific.
Biography of John Hill
- Rather fly and shoot than hold an office job. Flying since 1967.
- Pilot, 8000 hours plus 5000 as photographer passenger, mostly in C-172, 182, and 210.
- Started Tigerhill Studio in 1975, incorporated 1983.
- Service disabled USMC veteran.
Books:
- Museums and Mansions of the Hudson River, 1985, author John Zukowsky. Aerial photos are mine.
- Benjamin Marshall, Architect, 2014, Acanthus Press, authors John Zukowsky and Jean Guarino. Some aerial photos are mine.