Through Astronaut Eyes - Photographing Early Human Spaceflight (Hardcover)

Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before. Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s. This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography's impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.

General

Imprint:	Purdue University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Release date:	June 2020
Authors:	Jennifer K Levasseur
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	254
ISBN-13:	978-1-55753-931-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Aerospace & aviation technology > General Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics Books > History > General
LSN:	1-55753-931-6
Barcode:	9781557539311

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