Photography / Science

Portrait of a legacy

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Ed Prosser (On the Nature of Things) • 1 Comment

I mentioned in a previous post that no space shuttle has ever been fully photographed whilst docked with the International Space Station. However NASA has released today landmark portraits of Endeavour and the ISS taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on the 23rd of May whilst returning to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. This image was … Continue reading »

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Vue Lumière No 765 – Serpentine Dance, 1896

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Ed Prosser (On the Nature of Things) • Leave a comment

One interesting piece of media I came across today (whilst reading about the origins of cinema) was an early piece of footage shot by the Lumiere brothers in 1896: The silent film depicts an unnamed dancer quite hauntingly perform Loie Fuller’s Serpentine Dance. Each frame was hand coloured to help vividly depict the striking motion … Continue reading »

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Portrait of a legacy

Vue Lumière No 765 – Serpentine Dance, 1896

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