Earthrise, 2003

Ink print, 17.25 x 19.5 finished to 24.5 x 27.5 inches. Collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, the Anchorage Museum and private collections.

William Anders made his famous photograph of the Earth rising above the lunar surface while aboard Apollo 8 in
1968. Photographs taken on the moon’s surface were a favorite target of conspiracy theorists who claimed the
photographs were staged on a set and sold to the American public as the real thing. Earthrise replicates Anders’
famous photograph using a bowling ball mounted in front of black velvet, suspended above a lunar surface that is
constructed of chicken wire and tissue paper.