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Full moon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Jonathan Cape, 2002.Description: 192 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0224063049
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 629.45 LIG 1 Available T00371939
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

First published in 1999 on the 30th anniversary of the first landing on the moon, this heavily illustrated volume depicts a composite journey to the moon and back to Earth using the original photographs that were taken at the time. This small-format version preserves the quality of the original.

Originally published: 1999.

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Library Journal Review

Light chooses 145 of the 32,000 photos taken by the Apollo astronauts; a 100,000-copy first printing. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

School Library Journal Review

YA-A San Francisco artist and photographer has pulled together 129 stunning, black-and-white and color photographs from 32,000 previously unavailable pictures of the Apollo missions. He has lovingly put them together to form one continuous moon voyage. The photos, mostly taken by astronauts, show fiery, explosive liftoffs; gorgeous, striking earthscapes; astronauts floating by their single umbilical cords in space; hauntingly beautiful moon shots; and many alternate shots recognizably from the first moon landing. An essay and a section explaining when, where, and by whom all the photos were shot are included. A terrific addition for libraries that need tie-ins with science, photography, history, or creative curricula.-John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

NASA sent pilots not poets to the moon, yet Edwin Aldrin's comment about the moon's "magnificent desolation" eloquently condensed the moonwalkers' feelings about the scenery. Light reflected strangely off the cratered, pulverized surface, producing shades between brilliant white and charcoal black, all beneath a daytime sky of obsidian blackness. Some of the photographs taken during the moon missions have become iconic, but Light wanted to escape the greatest-hits rut in this album. Selecting 129 from the tens of thousands that the astronaut-photographers made, Light arranges them into a single launch-to-splashdown story, exactly as done by the documentary film For All Mankind (1989). He strives to achieve a number of effects: a sense of landscape grim but grand, evident throughout but particularly in several foldout panoramas, as well as a sense of the human scale set against such alien vistas. Depending on the photograph, one is aware of the triumph in the astronauts' lunar presence, the loneliness of a solitary, suited figure in the distance, the viscerally felt blue-white beauty of tiny, distant Earth, the wistful temporariness of the Apollo endeavor, now receding in memory decade by decade. The photographs are not only emotionally powerful but also top-quality because the printings were made directly from digital scans of the original film--apparently a first in publishing as all other reproductions have been made from copied film. A summary narrative about Apollo by Andrew Chaikin (A Man on the Moon, 1994) fills out this visual stunner that no library's space collection can do without. --Gilbert Taylor

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