Sentences with phrase «photographic images of the sky»

Years of careful measurement of photographic images of the sky led Henrietta Leavitt to a discovery that is fundamental to how astronomers measure the scale of the Universe.

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This color image is based on data coming from 33 photographic plates taken between 1987 and 1995 through the Palomar Observatory's 48 - inch (1,2 - meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II).

This wide - field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Surveysky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky SurveySky Survey 2.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

Hirose picks up things dissolved within our daily life and recomposes them like poems: such as in the «Sky» series in which he took photographs of sky on his actual travels; the «Night» series whereby he traveled in the image of photographic clippings from printed matters; and the «Beans Cosmos» series in which he encloses various materials such as pasta, maps, beans and gold in acrylic cubSky» series in which he took photographs of sky on his actual travels; the «Night» series whereby he traveled in the image of photographic clippings from printed matters; and the «Beans Cosmos» series in which he encloses various materials such as pasta, maps, beans and gold in acrylic cubsky on his actual travels; the «Night» series whereby he traveled in the image of photographic clippings from printed matters; and the «Beans Cosmos» series in which he encloses various materials such as pasta, maps, beans and gold in acrylic cubes.

Untitled (1993) by Jack Goldstein is large format painting transposing a photographic image of a night sky with different colored concentric light circles over a landscape whose silhouette hints at tree tops and a red lava stream.

Through the photographic source material of oceans, night skies and deserts she relentlessly explores the image and the richness of its variation.

Awards & Distinctions 2015 ICP Infinity Award 2015 World Press Photo Award, 2nd 2015 Photographic Museum of Humanity, 1st 2015 White House News Photographers Assoc., 1st 2015 POYi Award of Excellence 2014 TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2014 2014 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant 2014 Pulitzer Center Grant 2013 Getty Images Grant 2012 Pulitzer Center Grant 2012 POYi World Understanding Award 2012 Saint Brieuc Festival Grant 2012 IoS Photography Books of the Year 2012 POYi Best Book Award, Finalist 2011 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, Finalist 2011 Magnum Foundation Grant 2010 POYi Photographer of the Year, 1st 2008 Hearst Fellow, Univ. of Colorado 2008 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2008 Photographer of the Year, 2nd 2008 POYi Award of Excellence 2008 Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2007 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2007 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Perpignan Young Photographer 2006 Bayeux War Correspondents Prize 2006 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Days Japan Jury Prize 2006 PDN's 30 Past Solo Exhibitions Blue Sky Days in Bayeux, France Oct - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Cortona Italy Jul - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Barcelona Jul - 2015 Borderline North Korea Nov - 2013 Castaways of the Marshall Islands Oct - 2012 Behind The Curtains of 21st Century Communism Jul - 2012 Behind the Curtains Aug - 2010 Behind the Curtain May - 2009 Nepal Rituels & Revolution Feb - 2009

Exhibition: SOLO EXHIBITIONS Blue Sky Days in Bayeux, France Oct - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Cortona Italy Jul - 2015 Blue Sky Days in Barcelona Jul - 2015 Borderline North Korea Nov - 2013 Castaways of the Marshall Islands Oct - 2012 Behind The Curtains of 21st Century Communism Jul - 2012 Behind the Curtains Aug - 2010 Behind the Curtain May - 2009 Nepal Rituels & Revolution Feb - 2009 AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS 2015 ICP Infinity Award 2015 World Press Photo Award, 2nd 2015 Photographic Museum of Humanity, 1st 2015 White House News Photographers Assoc., 1st 2015 POYi Award of Excellence 2014 TIME's Top 10 Photos of 2014 2014 Aaron Siskind Fellowship Grant 2014 Pulitzer Center Grant 2013 Getty Images Grant 2012 Pulitzer Center Grant 2012 POYi World Understanding Award 2012 Saint Brieuc Festival Grant 2012 IoS Photography Books of the Year 2012 POYi Best Book Award, Finalist 2011 Leica Oskar Barnack Prize, Finalist 2011 Magnum Foundation Grant 2010 POYi Photographer of the Year, 1st 2008 Hearst Fellow, Univ. of Colorado 2008 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2008 Photographer of the Year, 2nd 2008 POYi Award of Excellence 2008 Alicia Patterson Fellowship 2007 Amnesty Human Rights Award 2007 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Perpignan Young Photographer 2006 Bayeux War Correspondents Prize 2006 POYi Award of Excellence 2006 Days Japan Jury Prize 2006 PDN's 30