Full Moon - Hardcover

Light, Michael

 
9780375414947: Full Moon
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375414940 ISBN 13: 9780375414947
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A compact edition of the work originally published to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the first landing on the moon contains 129 beautiful images of a round trip to the moon, paired with a descriptive narrative of the Apollo missions. 50,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Light is an artist and photographer based in San Francisco. His work is in the collections of The Center for Creative Photography and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His photo-novel, Ranch, was published in 1994.

Andrew Chaikin, who contributed an essay to this volume, is the author of the definitive study of the Apollo missions, A Man on the Moon (1994), which was the basis of the award-winning television series From the Earth to the Moon.

Aus dem Klappentext

illing 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 o

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0375414940
ISBN 13 
9780375414947
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
232
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