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Title: Hasselblad & the Moon Landing
Condition: New
EAN: 9781781453346
ISBN: 9781781453346
Publisher: Ammonite Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 11/10/2018
Item Height: 200mm
Item Length: 200mm
Author: Deborah Ireland
Language: English
Description: On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon, their iconic "small steps" captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL. This book looks at the history of the Apollo 11 mission through the lens of the Hasselblad, while narrating the parallel challenge to create a camera that could work on the Moon. It considers the cameras used, and the photographs captured, during the Space Race between Russia and America; looks at the experience of taking photographs on the Moon for the first time; and reflects on the legacy of those images, and their part in the enduring Moon Landing conspiracy theories. The second half of the book presents a commemorative album of photographs taken in space using the Hasselblad 500EL. While the Apollo 11 astronauts left two of the three cameras behind on the Moon, where they remain to this day, they brought back film magazines containing 1,400 photographs. A selection of the finest of these is shown alongside the mission timeline and transcripts of the conversations between the astronauts and mission control at Houston.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Arts & Photography
Topic: Technology & Engineering, Science Nature & Math
Release Year: 2018

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