332nd Fighter Group in Flight, Selfridge Field, Michigan ("At last we are airborne—We take up our battle positions—White wisps pass us—It's glorious up here.")

October 1943

Gordon Parks

Associated Names
Gordon Parks

Artist, American, 1912 - 2006

The image features an aerial perspective from an aircraft in flight, showing its wing in the lower right corner. In the distance, a formation of seven aircraft flies in alignment against a vast sky. The horizon is high, displaying a landscape below and a slightly clouded sky above. The color palette is monochromatic with sepia tones, giving a vintage look to the photograph. The style is clear and focused, highlighting the sharp lines and contours of the aircraft against the open sky and terrain. It is a photograph without visible brushstrokes.
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Provenance

Gordon Parks, New York; Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, 2006; gift to NGA, 2019.

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Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right in black ink: Gordon Parks; on verso, signed by artist, center right perpendicular in black ink: Gordon Parks; on recto, bottom center printed in negative: "At last we are airborne--We take up our battle positions-- / White wisps pass us--It's glorious up here."; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: 06.006; bottom right: GP02595

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