Unified By Images

            In Cosgrove’s “One-World , Whole-Earth, and the Apollo Space Photographs,” Cosgrove explains the importance of the photograph, “Earth Rise,” that Apollo Astronauts took during the first expedition to the moon. From what I learned, the snapshots of the Earth, not the moon, posed the most interesting and important during the expedition.  The world was deemed a “delicate, beautiful, and mysterious” place according to the astronauts. Cosgrove states that the newfound appearance of the globe helps unify the countries together. I agree with Cosgrove because the symbol of the globe is our home, a common place where every human is born and raised. Viewing the world as a small orb of blue, green, and brown really minimizes the thoughts of individualism that had been created during the rise of the Cold War. The photograph 22727 depicted the large scale Africa in the center of the globe along with Antarctica. American and Europe were hidden in this photograph, which helps give neutralization of the “globe” as to which superpower was more important during the Cold War. This view from above really makes us feel that we are living on his small little sphere in the middle of darkness. With that in mind, what is the importance of war and domination? It sparks questions of life’s origin and the ability of a God controlling the universe. I believe that Cosgrove is right about the photographs’ powers on controlling our minds into becoming unified again despite all of our individualities and differences, which is why many organizations and companies today relate togetherness and globalization through the symbol of “the globe.” Whenever we have conflicts among continents, the globe will be always be there to remind us that we are together in the lone universe, and our world is only an unnoticeable spec in the galaxy.