Full Moon - Rilegato

Light, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0375406344 ISBN 13: 9780375406348

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

Selected from among the thousands of photographs taken by Apollo astronauts during the moon expeditions, a stunning array of 145 black-and-white and full-color photos offers a composite space voyage to Earth's satellite, from liftoff to moon landing to return home. 100,000 first printing.

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L'autore

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.

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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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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375406344
• ISBN 13: 9780375406348
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Redattore: Chaikin Andrew