Full Moon (Hardcover, Compact ed)

To mark the 30th anniversary of the first moon landing, and in 1999 NASA permitted 900 of the 'master' negatives from the 32,000 pictures taken on the Apollo missions to be removed from the archive for scanning. The late commander of Apollo 14, Alan Shepard, cried at the first sight of our planet from his lunar standpoint and much of the wonder of those early visits is communicated here. There is an accompanying essay by Chaikin, the author of A Man on the Moon, the definitve study of those missions, 57 black-and-white and 72 colour illustrations, and five eight-page gatefolds which the publisher describes as 'the ultimate landscape photography'. (Kirkus UK)

Full Moon is a photographic journey to the Moon and back, drawn from NASA's 32,000 pictures from the Apollo missions. For the first time NASA has allowed 900 of the 'master' negatives and transparencies to be taken offsite for electronic scanning so as to produce the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. From this selection of 'master' photographs Michael Light has distilled a single composite journey beginning with the launch, 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 splash-down. Five enormous gatefold panoramas show the extraordinary lunar landscape.

These photographs reveal not only the hardware of lunar exploration in exquisite detail but also the profound aesthetics of space in what could be described as the ultimate landscape photography. The reader is encouraged to view these pictures as more than a spectacle. You start to experience them with a sense of the accompanying disorientation and excitement that the astronauts themselves would have felt. The Moon's surface and its extraordinary light are presented with awesome clarity. Full Moon was originally published in 1999 to mark the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the Moon. It was a milestone publication for the millennium, greeted with acclaim worldwide and published in eight countries.

This new compact edition preserves all the superb quality of reproduction which was so evident in the original and makes this extraordinary work available to a still wider audience.

General

Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2002
Authors:	Michael Light
Dimensions:	208 x 208mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
Edition:	Compact ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-224-06304-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Popular astronomy Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Space travel & exploration Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > Photographic reportage Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Solar system > General Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > Astronautics Promotions
LSN:	0-224-06304-9
Barcode:	9780224063043

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