Light Years: Photography and Space
NGV International
Friday 08 May 2009 to Sunday 27 September 2009
Light Years: Photography and Space will bring together works from the NGV Collection which depict actual space travel, in the form of photographs from the archives of N.A.S.A.; imagined space travel; images of astronomical and scientific experimentation; and photographs that show the aesthetic influence of space and scientific research on popular culture.
In 1950, the British Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle speculated that “once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension … and a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”
Coinciding with the International Year of Astronomy, this exhibition will focus on the 1950s and 1960s, as a particularly exciting time historically and artistically for the research, voyage and visualisation of space.
Free entry
