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Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York presents visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography through the present

Title: Buzz Aldrin Walking on the Surface of the Moon near a Leg of the Lunar Module, 1969, Photograph by: Neil Armstrong (American, 1930–2012) NASA Apollo 11 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2017

The Telegraph
Published 22.07.19, 11:18 AM

Title: Earthrise, 1968; Photograph by: William Anders, (American, b. 1933); NASA Apollo 8 Gift of Jules Bergman, 1984, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Title: The Moon, 1857–60; Photograph by: John Adams Whipple, (American, 1822–1891); James Wallace Black, (American, 1825–1896) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981

Title: View of the Moon, 1852; Believed to be one of the earliest existing photographs of the moon. Photograph by: John Adams Whipple, (American, 1822–1891) John G. Wolbach Library, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, Mass. (OB-8)

Title: Blue Marble, 1972; Photograph by: Harrison Schmitt, (American, b. 1935); NASA Apollo 17 Gift of Jules Bergman, 1984, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Title: The Pond — Moonrise, 1904; Photograph by: John Adams Whipple, (American, 1822–1891) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933

Transparency of the Moon from Negatives Made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California, ca. 1896 Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Photography New York City Metropolitan Museum Of Art (Met) Moon Apollo 11
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