[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: [BerkTIPGlobal] Starry, Starry, Starry Night. Thierry Cohen (nytimes.com) YC

[giovanni_re]

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/03/magazine/look-stars.html
 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5205058
 http://zenpencils.com/comic/88-walt-whitman-when-i-heard-the-learnd-astronomer/


 PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY Thierry Cohen 
 

 What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant
 stars ? Thierry Cohen, a French photographer, thinks he can show us by
 blending city scenes — shot and altered to eliminate lights and other
 distractions — and the night skies from less populated locations that
 fall on the same latitudes. The result is what city dwellers might see
 in the absence of light pollution. So Paris gets the stars of northern
 Montana, New York those of the Nevada desert. As Cohen, whose work will
 be exhibited at the Danziger Gallery in New York in March, sees it, the
 loss of the starry skies, accelerated by worldwide population growth in
 cities, has created an urbanite who “forgets and no longer understands
 nature.” He adds, “To show him stars is to help him dream again.”

Julie Bosman



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 Starry, Starry, Starry Night (nytimes.com)

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From: "giovanni_re" <john_re at fastmail.us>
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Subject: [BerkTIPGlobal] Starry, Starry, Starry Night. Thierry Cohen 
(nytimes.com)  YC
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:52:08 -0800