Originally published in the July/August 2002 issue of The Atlantic
Monthly Archives: November 2011
More Places Forever intro sequence, with Arthur C. Clarke and Creation
Directed by Michael Benson; Camera by Michael Benson and Ziga Koritnik; Edited by Nika Lah; Music by Bor Turel; Coproduction of Kinetikon Pictures, ZDF/Arte and TVS
Planetary Landscapes
In the last decade, the multimedia artist Michael Benson has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of planetary landscape photography. He takes raw image data from deep-space missions run by NASA and the European Space Agency and digitally processes it … Continued
Palazzo della Borza, Genoa, Italy
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey
Minorite Monastery of St. Francis, Piran, Slovenia
Credit: Bojan Brecelj
Gliptoteka Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm
Fondazione Cini, Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
Transit of Io
Cassini, January 1, 2001, 2011 Digital C Print 72 x 72 inches, edition of 3 Also available in 50 x 50 inches, edition of 8 Also available in 35 x 35 inches, edition of 8
Global Dust Storm on Mars
Viking Orbiter 2, February 19, 1977, 2003 Digital C Print 27 x 100 inches, Edition of 8
ArtNews
Some of the most beautiful and important photographs ever taken turn out to be images of outer space. These have been able to change, and in many instances form, our ideas about the universe. So it is with a shiver … Continued