A01=Michael Benson
abstract nature photography
art photography
artistic photography
Author_Michael Benson
best non fiction
best non fiction books
best nonfiction
best nonfiction books
best selling photography books
bestseller
Category=AGN
Category=AJ
Category=AJCD
Category=PDND
close-up photography
cosmos
detailed nature photography
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_new_release
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_science
exploring hidden life
exploring the unseen
extreme close-up nature
extreme close-up photography
extreme detail photography
famous photographers
hidden worlds photography
high-magnification photography
high-resolution photography book
highly rated nonfiction books
intricate natural details
invisible ecosystems
invisible worlds photography
macro photography book
macro world book
magnified photography
mesmerizing micro photography
Michael Benson photography
micro life photography
micro photography book
microscopic organisms photography
microscopic photography
microscopic wonders
nanocosmos
nature up close
nature's tiny wonders
new release
nonfiction
nonfiction book lover gifts
nonfiction books
nonfiction books best sellers
nonfiction books for adults
nonfiction for adults
photo books
photo collection
photography
photography beyond the naked eye
photography books
photography coffee table
photography collections
photography exhibit
photography of the unseen
photomicrography book
picture collection
science photography
scientific imaging book
scientific photography
small-scale photography
textures of nature
the art of micro photography
tiny creatures photography
tiny worlds photography
unseen nature book
unseen universe book
zoomed-in photography
Product details
- ISBN 9780810997974
- Dimensions: 292 x 292mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Abrams
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A breathtaking tour of the natural world is offered in Nanocosmos, a glorious examination of majestic topographies revealed by powerful scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies.
Nothing like Nanocosmos has ever been seen before. Benson has produced an exhilarating, aesthetically magnificent examination of complex microscopic worlds.
The humbling beauty and cosmic immensity of our surrounding universe of planets, stars, and galaxies has inspired humanity since prehistoric times. But what about the vistas at the other end of the size-scale?
The tiny worlds here, invisible to our unassisted eyes, are if anything more intricate, complex, and extraordinary than anything so far seen in deep space. Lauded artist and author Michael Benson’s sensational Nanocosmos corrects this oversight with an unprecedented examination of natural design at sub-millimeter scales.
Constructed from SEM scans that he made over the course of six years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Quebec, the images presented here reveal an eerie, awe-inspiring beauty in subjects taken from the natural world. These include radiolarians, dinoflagellates, and diatoms, as well as many varieties of insects, microscopic flowers, and even lunar samples from the Apollo program.
The composite mosaic micrographs in Nanocosmos fuse art and science in revelatory ways, exposing an astonishing sublimity hidden to the naked eye.
Nothing like Nanocosmos has ever been seen before. Benson has produced an exhilarating, aesthetically magnificent examination of complex microscopic worlds.
The humbling beauty and cosmic immensity of our surrounding universe of planets, stars, and galaxies has inspired humanity since prehistoric times. But what about the vistas at the other end of the size-scale?
The tiny worlds here, invisible to our unassisted eyes, are if anything more intricate, complex, and extraordinary than anything so far seen in deep space. Lauded artist and author Michael Benson’s sensational Nanocosmos corrects this oversight with an unprecedented examination of natural design at sub-millimeter scales.
Constructed from SEM scans that he made over the course of six years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Quebec, the images presented here reveal an eerie, awe-inspiring beauty in subjects taken from the natural world. These include radiolarians, dinoflagellates, and diatoms, as well as many varieties of insects, microscopic flowers, and even lunar samples from the Apollo program.
The composite mosaic micrographs in Nanocosmos fuse art and science in revelatory ways, exposing an astonishing sublimity hidden to the naked eye.
An artist, author and filmmaker, Michael Benson has pursued a wide-ranging creative practice. His work spans a range of media, from large-format photographic prints to nonfiction books and essays, illustrated books, films and visual-effects sequences. Following an influential period of engagement with the avant-gardes of the Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia, captured in feature articles for Rolling Stone magazine and his award-winning documentary Predictions of Fire (1995), Benson turned his attention to the intersection of art and science in the 2000s. Over the last two decades, he has staged a series of large-scale exhibitions of extraterrestrial planetary landscapes at venues including the American Museum of Natural History in New York (2007); the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC (2010); the Natural History Museum in London (2016); and The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (2025). Benson’s highly regarded books include Beyond (2003); Far Out (2009); Planetfall (2012); and Cosmigraphics (2014). He contributed to, and in some cases supervised the production of, the visionary cosmology sequences in Terrence Malick’s films The Tree of Life (2011) and Voyage of Time (2016). His most recent book, Space Odyssey (2018), recounts the making of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Benson has had solo gallery shows in New York and London and is currently represented by Flowers Gallery in London. His work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario; the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri; the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts; and many private collections. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic, among other venues. For the last few years Benson has been using scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to focus on natural design at sub-millimeter scales for Nanocosmos, the project presented in this volume. A recent Visiting Scholar at the Center for Bits and Atoms at the MIT Media Lab, Michael Benson is a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities.
For more on his work, see www.michael-benson.com
For more on his work, see www.michael-benson.com
