SCIENCE
The Eameses sought
to foster universal understanding of socially beneficial
science. To help people understand new technologies and
their potential, they produced approximately sixty films,
exhibitions, and books for such corporations as IBM, Boeing,
Polaroid, and Westinghouse. Throughout their careers,
the Eameses counted many scientists as colleagues and
friends, joining their community as visual communicators.
A major theme in all
the Eameses' scientific endeavors was the beauty and elegance
of scientific principles and the tools used to study and
convey them. Revealing science's complex integration of
art, philosophy, and nature, the Eameses' films and exhibitions
successfully related the unfamiliar aspects of science
with familiar and comfortable facets of everyday life.
These projects translated complex ideas into simple images
to make them understandable to the lay person.
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Production Art for Powers
of Ten,
circa 1977, mixed-media panels
and reproductions.
Prints & Photographs Division (E-05)
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The ultimate Eamesian expression
of systems and connections, Powers of Ten explores
the relative size of things from the microscopic to the cosmic.
The 1977 film travels from an aerial view of a man in a Chicago
park to the outer limits of the universe directly above him
and back down into the microscopic world contained in the man's
hand. Powers of Ten illustrates the universe as an
arena of both continuity and change, of everyday picnics and
cosmic mystery. The film also demonstrates the Eameses' ability
to make science both fascinating and accessible.
Powers of Ten (100)
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These elaborately conceived and
executed panels were created by the Eames Office for Powers
of Ten. Forty-two large square images that mark the
powers of ten were used in the production of the film
and later reproduced for the 1982 book, Powers of
Ten: A Book About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe
and the Effect of Adding Another Zero, written by
Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, and the Office of Charles
and Ray Eames.
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Powers of Ten (101)
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Powers of Ten (103)
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Production Art for Powers of Ten,
circa 1977, mixed-media panels and reproductions.
Prints & Photographs Division (E-05)
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Powers of Ten (102)
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