Full Moon
Light, Michael
This is a masterpice of photographic art. Compiled are wunderful, maybe the best photos taken by the Apollo astronauts on the surface of the moon and from orbit in a quality newer seen before. A large format book with fullsize photos on black paper.
Book Description:
The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. Michael Light has woven 129 of these stunningly clear images into a single composite voyage, a narrative of breathtaking immediacy and authenticity that begins with the launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, a lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth with an orbit and splashdown.
Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Published on the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11--the first landing on the Moon--this remarkable and mesmerizing volume is, like the voyages it commemorates and recreates, an experience both intimate and monumental.
Hardcover with original dust jacket. Large format, ca. 30 x 30 cm.
244 Seiten / pages
many color and black and white photos
very good condition, with a name label of the previous owner, dust jacket a little rubbed
New York - 1999 - Alfred A. Knopf
Art.Nr. 25761
