Matthew Beck Event

A Cultural History Of The Sublime First Image Of A Black Hole, In Photographs And Documentspeering Into Lights Graveyard: The First Image Of The Black Hole, Read The York Times' April 11 Cover Story. The Headline, Like Many Others That Day, Was Accompanied By An Image Of A Glowing Celestial Ring Framed By Infinite Blackness: The First Image Of A Black Hole. In His First Book, York Photographer Matthew Beck (born 1986) Focuses On The Unveiling Of This Previously Unseeable Image By Following It Into The Depths Of The York City Subway.the Book Suggests The Notion That The Cosmos Is Not Something To Simply Be Observed From Our Vantage Point As Humans, But More A System That We Are Intrinsically A Part Of; And The True Nature Of The Black Hole Seems To Be As Elusive As The Answer To Humanitys Most Pressing Question Of Why.