In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made. (More images and higher resolutions are available from here).
Operation Doorstep | The Spirit Photographs of William Hope | The Maps of Piri Reis | Dr Julius Neubronner's Miniature Pigeon Camera |
Art in Art | Huexotzinco Codex | Sessions for the Blind at Sunderland Museum | Eugène von Guérard's Australian Landscapes |
Landscape and Marine Views of Norway | The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy | Space Colony Art from the 1970s | Men in Wigs |
De humana physiognomonia libri IIII (1586) | Field Columbian Museum | Maps from Geographicus | Arnoldus Montanus' New and Unknown World (1671) |
World War II from the Air | Halloween Postcards | Engravings by Dominicus Custos | Kodak No.1 Circular Snapshots |
Kitab al-Bulhan or Book of Wonders (late 14thC.) | The Daddy Long Legs of Brighton | Amundsen's South Pole Expedition (1912) | A Catalogue of Polish Bishops |
Harry Clarke's illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe (1919) | The Embalming Jars of Frederik Ruysch (1710) | Labors of the Months from the Très Riches Heures (1416) |
Rufus Pollock
Jonathan Gray
Primavera De Filippi
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