 Indeed, her hallmark is shadow, the sharp delineation of absent light.One could easily turn the etymology of photograph on its ear and call a Bridges aerial landscape an "umbragraph", where darkness explains things – or at least exposes them – far more comprehensively than light does.– William Least Heat-Moon, author of "Blue Highways"

Marilyn Bridges has been hanging out of open airplane doors, suspending herself over space, shooting landscapes from above .