Untitled astronomical photograph
Artist
Lewis P. Tabor
(American, 1900 - 1974)
Dateca. 1930-1931
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsFramed: 33 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches (84.46 x 71.76 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4539
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Constellations. Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, March 27 - April 24, 1998, no cat.
American Photographs: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Celebrating a Grand Gift: The Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 10 – April 30, 2006, no cat.
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 15 - November 13, 2011, no cat.
Lewis Tabor’s images of star fields were usually made with long exposures, on very large 20 x 24 inch glass plate negatives. This photograph was made with a seven-hour and seventeen-minute exposure through a 10¼-inch refractor telescope. The resulting image depicts millions of stars in our own galaxy. In the center of the visual field is our celestial neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, 2.5 million light-years distant and composed of about one trillion stars.
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