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How it works

By using Four Corners you are able to add contextualizing information so that it is embedded into each of the four corners of your image. When a viewer hovers his or her mouse over the image, the Four Corners symbols appear and each corner is then clickable.

You can create your own Four Corners image with our online form. This provides fields you can fill in with various types of text and media. Once you fill in the provided fields, it automatically generates an embeddable code that you can copy and paste into your site.

Declare your authorship

In the bottom right corner, you can display your own caption, credit, license, bio, and code of ethics. You can also allow the reader to contact you or your agent for potential sales or reproductions of the image. For the first time in history, a reader will be able to immediately know a photographer’s code of ethics—to what extent do they respect the conventions of journalism, manipulate the image with software, set up photographs, work as an artist, etc.

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Earthrise: The Story Behind William Anders' Apollo 8 Photograph Time Magazine (View on youtube.com)
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On Christmas Eve, 1968, at the end of an enormously turbulent year that was rife with political upheaval, astronaut Bill Anders photographed the Earth from his perch on an Apollo spacecraft. As they began the fourth of 10 orbits, a view of the planet filled one of the windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed, before photographing it, first in black and white, and then again in color. “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth,” he later wrote.nnEarthrise, as the photograph was called, was placed on a U.S. postage stamp and is credited with inspiring Earth Day, celebrated for the first time by millions on April 22, 1970, sixteen months after Anders made the image.

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Caption: Earthrise was photographed by astronaut William Anders on the first human mission to the moon, Apollo 8, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. It was the first time that earthlings were able to see their fragile planet hovering in space in full color, and is widely credited for sparking the environmental movement.
Credit: William Anders
About the photographer: William Anders is a former NASA astronaut, engineer, and US Air Force Major general. He is best known for being one of the three first humans to leave Earth’s orbit to circle the moon, and for his Earthrise photograph.
License: Public Domain

Tell the backstory of the image

In the bottom left corner, you can explain what was going on when you made the image, include interviews with the subjects of the photograph or with witnesses to the event that is depicted, or the perspectives of anyone else with information that helps the reader to better understand the circumstances when the photograph was made.

Related Imagery
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Earthrise: The Story Behind William Anders' Apollo 8 Photograph Time Magazine (View on youtube.com)
Backstory
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On Christmas Eve, 1968, at the end of an enormously turbulent year that was rife with political upheaval, astronaut Bill Anders photographed the Earth from his perch on an Apollo spacecraft. As they began the fourth of 10 orbits, a view of the planet filled one of the windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed, before photographing it, first in black and white, and then again in color. “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth,” he later wrote.nnEarthrise, as the photograph was called, was placed on a U.S. postage stamp and is credited with inspiring Earth Day, celebrated for the first time by millions on April 22, 1970, sixteen months after Anders made the image.

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Caption: Earthrise was photographed by astronaut William Anders on the first human mission to the moon, Apollo 8, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. It was the first time that earthlings were able to see their fragile planet hovering in space in full color, and is widely credited for sparking the environmental movement.
Credit: William Anders
About the photographer: William Anders is a former NASA astronaut, engineer, and US Air Force Major general. He is best known for being one of the three first humans to leave Earth’s orbit to circle the moon, and for his Earthrise photograph.
License: Public Domain

Add related imagery

In the top left corner, you can provide context to your image by connecting it with other images. For example, you can add photographs made before or after the event depicted, a video of the scene, a comparative image such as one made in the same place at another time, or a photograph of the same person in another circumstance.

Related Imagery
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Earthrise: The Story Behind William Anders' Apollo 8 Photograph Time Magazine (View on youtube.com)
Backstory
1

On Christmas Eve, 1968, at the end of an enormously turbulent year that was rife with political upheaval, astronaut Bill Anders photographed the Earth from his perch on an Apollo spacecraft. As they began the fourth of 10 orbits, a view of the planet filled one of the windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed, before photographing it, first in black and white, and then again in color. “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth,” he later wrote.nnEarthrise, as the photograph was called, was placed on a U.S. postage stamp and is credited with inspiring Earth Day, celebrated for the first time by millions on April 22, 1970, sixteen months after Anders made the image.

Authorship
0
Caption: Earthrise was photographed by astronaut William Anders on the first human mission to the moon, Apollo 8, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. It was the first time that earthlings were able to see their fragile planet hovering in space in full color, and is widely credited for sparking the environmental movement.
Credit: William Anders
About the photographer: William Anders is a former NASA astronaut, engineer, and US Air Force Major general. He is best known for being one of the three first humans to leave Earth’s orbit to circle the moon, and for his Earthrise photograph.
License: Public Domain

Share links

In the top right corner, you can include links to websites with a related article or video, historical explanation, or any other information that helps to deepen the reader’s understanding of the image.

Related Imagery
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Earthrise: The Story Behind William Anders' Apollo 8 Photograph Time Magazine (View on youtube.com)
Backstory
1

On Christmas Eve, 1968, at the end of an enormously turbulent year that was rife with political upheaval, astronaut Bill Anders photographed the Earth from his perch on an Apollo spacecraft. As they began the fourth of 10 orbits, a view of the planet filled one of the windows. “Oh, my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!” Anders exclaimed, before photographing it, first in black and white, and then again in color. “We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth,” he later wrote.nnEarthrise, as the photograph was called, was placed on a U.S. postage stamp and is credited with inspiring Earth Day, celebrated for the first time by millions on April 22, 1970, sixteen months after Anders made the image.

Authorship
0
Caption: Earthrise was photographed by astronaut William Anders on the first human mission to the moon, Apollo 8, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1968. It was the first time that earthlings were able to see their fragile planet hovering in space in full color, and is widely credited for sparking the environmental movement.
Credit: William Anders
About the photographer: William Anders is a former NASA astronaut, engineer, and US Air Force Major general. He is best known for being one of the three first humans to leave Earth’s orbit to circle the moon, and for his Earthrise photograph.
License: Public Domain