Chari Larsson is an art historian at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Australia. She focuses on modern and contemporary art and is the author of 'Didi-Huberman and the image.'
film camera, it was the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and is believed to be the most reproduced image of all time. Up until this point, our view of ourselves had been disconnected and fragmented: there was no way to visualise the planet in its entirety.
The Apollo 17 crew were on their way to the moon when the photograph was captured at 18,000 miles from the Earth. It quickly became a symbol of harmony and unity. shows a partial Earth, rising up from the moon's surface.In Blue Marble, the Earth appears in the center of the frame, floating in space. It is possible to clearly see the African continent, as well as the Antarctica south polar ice cap.
Photographs like Blue Marble are quite hard to capture. To see the Earth as a full globe floating in space, lighting needs to be calculated carefully. The
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