The Bigger Picture - PBS

The Bigger Picture is a seven-part series produced for PBS WNET by Timestamp Media. I was one of two Associate Producers for this series, working on development, research and field production.

Series Summary:

Images can tell powerful stories. One iconic photograph can symbolize an entire era. But if we expand the frame and examine the moment in which it was taken, a very different story can emerge. In this series of documentary shorts, Harvard University historian Dr. Vincent Brown meets with curators, photographers and other experts to challenge common assumptions about iconic American images.

EPISODE 2 The Story Behind Earth’s Most Famous Photo

How did the “Blue Marble,” as it is now known, come to be? Host Vincent Brown learns just how extraordinary a technical feat it was for Apollo 17 astronauts to snap the photograph in 1972, and how early environmentalists hoped that an image of the whole Earth might spark a desire to protect our planet.