Air Lines - Peabody Essex Museum

I highly recommend a visit to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem to view Alex MacLean's Air Lines photography exhibit. Alex is a Harvard-trained architect who uses his small plane to take aerial photographs for both urban planning and artistic purposes. He presents seemingly ordinary landscapes such as railyards, subdivisions, and agricultural fields as compelling compositions of spatial relationships and color. I saw him present at CNU XII in Chicago and really enjoyed the photographs both as art and as social commentary regarding development and the environment.

Take the commuter rail from North Station to the Salem stop, and the Peabody Essex Museum is a short walk through historic Salem. Great day trip.