Featured Exhibits
Hear the word "earth" and the image likely to flash through the mind is a descendant of a photo commonly known as "Blue Marble" or "Whole Earth" (1972), which reveals the disk of our terraqueous planet suspended alone in the void. It is reputed to be the most widely disseminated photograph in human history, and together with other views of the Earth from beyond has prompted a revolution in the global imagination. The projects presented here assess the plausibility of that claim in a variety of ways and forms, from websites to more conventional essays to graphic novels produced on digital platforms. They were created by Reed students in the context of a sequence of courses (History 345/397) called "Whole Earths, Globalizations, World Pictures." Some of them blew my mind. Perhaps you'll enjoy them, too.
Ikonokalypse
by Camille Charlier
Geodesic Domes Or
No Direction Home?
by Ahmed Kabil
Postcards From Space
by Lauren Bergenholtz
The Eye Must Die
by Jordan Horowitz
No Earth Catalog
by Isaac Eger
Earthrise and Economies
by Kelsey Lucas
World Picture Catalog
by Chloe Novak, Cale Weissman, Emily Taw