bobbycaputo: Curating the Cosmos Calling Michael Benson a…
Curating the Cosmos
Calling Michael Benson a curator of interplanetary spaceflight imagery only touches upon what he actually does.
“Curatorship is one of the roles I play in relation to these images,” began Benson via email. “I would divide my roles into curatorship, meaning a sifting through tens of thousands of raw frames in effect panning for gold; then image processing: compositing and mosaicking the raw frames to make final images frequently from dozens or even hundreds of raw frames, then optimizing for print and finally exhibiting the results in various venues.”
The seemingly infinite number of frames seem appropriate for a man who is dealing with, after all, the infinite subject of space.
Reblogging because these are not Hollywood sci fi space art. They’re real.
Welcome to your universe. It’s pretty amazing.
Reposted from http://lies.tumblr.com/post/43162239430.
