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Editorial 540072 ANM0010.1177/1746847714540072Animation editorial2014 animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2014, Vol. 9(2) 115 –116 © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847714540072 anm.sagepub.com At his recent inaugural lecture at Middlesex University London, Professor of Visual Culture Nicholas Mirzoeff included a photograph of the earth from space, captured with a 70 mm Hasselblad by Apollo 17 in 1972. As one of the most widely-distributed images (Hartwell, 2007), this photo- indexical image of the earth affected the collective conscious of the fragility and limits of our planet to a degree as yet not possible, because earlier representations were based on imagination, physics and astronomy, and the truth value of this photograph was uncontested – it was taken by a human being, from space. The perceptual aspects of scale have long fascinated artists, writers and scientists; notable examples are Alice’s mushroom-induced shrinking and growing in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic Powers of Ten (1977) and recent CGI visualisations of nanoworlds and cell biology. In animation, imaged representations of our planet have featured in many films over the years, from Koko’s Earth Control (Max and Dave Fleischer, 1928) to Tex Avery’s King Size Canary (1947). Avery’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal SAGE

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Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal , Volume 9 (2): 2 – Jul 1, 2014
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540072 ANM0010.1177/1746847714540072Animation editorial2014 animation: an interdisciplinary journal 2014, Vol. 9(2) 115 –116 © The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1746847714540072 anm.sagepub.com At his recent inaugural lecture at Middlesex University London, Professor of Visual Culture Nicholas Mirzoeff included a photograph of the earth from space, captured with a 70 mm Hasselblad by Apollo 17 in 1972. As one of the most widely-distributed images (Hartwell, 2007), this photo- indexical image of the earth affected the collective conscious of the fragility and limits of our planet to a degree as yet not possible, because earlier representations were based on imagination, physics and astronomy, and the truth value of this photograph was uncontested – it was taken by a human being, from space. The perceptual aspects of scale have long fascinated artists, writers and scientists; notable examples are Alice’s mushroom-induced shrinking and growing in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Charles and Ray Eames’ iconic Powers of Ten (1977) and recent CGI visualisations of nanoworlds and cell biology. In animation, imaged representations of our planet have featured in many films over the years, from Koko’s Earth Control (Max and Dave Fleischer, 1928) to Tex Avery’s King Size Canary (1947). Avery’s

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