American astronomer Edwin Hubble looks through the eyepiece of the 100-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles, 1937. In 1929, Hubble proposed that the more distant a galaxy is, the faster it appears to be receding from us, a concept that has become known as Hubble's law. Photo: Margaret Bourke-White Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White's photo of the American astronomer Edwin Hubble captures the true essence of Edwin Hubble and his connection and love for our expanded discovery of our universe. The immense contrast in this photo with the foreground being very bright and almost stark white which is the exact opposite of the background that is completely black adds to the idea that this photo is about Edwin Hubble and how he was searching the darkness of space for new things and in this photo by Margaret Bourke-White creates a stark dark background that now we search for new things. This parallelism in the photo makes this photo seem timeless because the darkness of space and of this photo are both everlasting. Overall, the unique composition of this photo focusing on a large telescope and Edwin Hubble make this photo by Margaret Bourke-White timeless.
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