Full Moon
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.82 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375406344 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 236 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them electronically. You return to space for the reuniting of the lander and capsule, and a repetition of the tedious journey back home. Leaving the cluttered interior of the capsule in bulky, awkward suits, the astronauts bring delicate tracings of color--gold on the lander; red, white, and blue on the spacesuits' flag patches--to this black-and-white world. A spacewalk adds vertigo--the astronaut looks fragile and very alone as he floats outside his capsule far above his home planet. Light orders the photos sequentially, selecting the most arresting images from each mission, to create a truly cinematic experience. A nice section in the back of the book explains each photo with a detailed caption, and an essay by author Andrew Chaikin (A Man on the Moon) adds more written context to this stunning visual experience. The book is printed on very high-quality paper, with matte b
"Fantastic book" according to Teemacs. I really wondered whether I could justify a book of photos of the Moon's surface, which, after all, had been done to death by NASA during the Moon landing years (we all really became a bit blasé about the whole business, forgetting what an astounding technical achievement it was for the ti. "amazing photography" according to 2-D. This is a beautiful book. It is a series of photos from various Apollo missions, put together in a way to illustrate a voyage from Earth to the moon & back. The photos take up whole pages, or are panorama fold-outs. The photos are crystal clear. I have seen close-ups made from these photos before. -D said amazing photography. This is a beautiful book. It is a series of photos from various Apollo missions, put together in a way to illustrate a voyage from Earth to the moon & back. The photos take up whole pages, or are panorama fold-outs. The photos are crystal clear. I have seen close-ups made from these photos before. What this book is about "Full Moon" is a selection of about one hundred pictures of different lunar american missions. The selection and the digital improvement has been made by Michael Light, and all has been done from an artistic perspective.If you're looking for a very comprehensive lunar mission day-to-day, intervie
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 re-creates, an experience both intimate and monumental.. 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. Until recently, only a hand