"Full Moon" is a visual journey to the moon and back. In the course of the Apollo missions, the astronauts took 32,000 photographs. These were shot on Hasselblad cameras with remarkable definition. The original film has been stored in special conditions by NASA, but the second generation of films is referred to as the 'masters'. For the first time, NASA has allowed the 'masters' to leave Houston and 900 photographs have been scanned in California under the direction of Michael Light. The resulting prints are of unprecedented quality and beauty. From editing these photographs, Michael Light has constructed a composite journey including the launch, a walk in space, an orbit of the moon, a landing and exploration of the lunar surface, and a return to earth. The result is a sequence that explores not only the aesthetics of space but the ultimate landscape photography. The publication will be a millennial landmark and will coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the first lunar landing.

Full Moon

Engineering & Transportation

Andrew Chaikin

Michael Light

Transportation

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

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 astronaurs themselves would have felt. Full Moon was originally published in 1999 to mark the thirtieth 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.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

JONATHAN CAPE.

Photographically documents one hundred US nuclear detonations from the 215 declared atmospheric nuclear tests conducted by the US between July 1945 and November 1962. This book also includes detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear weapons, a list of the names of the declared 1030 tests, and a bibliography.

100 Suns

Individual Artists

The most thrilling of all journeys--the missions of the Apollo astronauts to the surface of the Moon and back--yielded 32,000 extraordinarily beautiful photographs, the record of a unique human achievement. Until recently, only a handful of these photographs had been released for publication; but now, for the first time, NASA has allowed a selection of the master negatives and transparencies to be scanned electronically, rendering the sharpest images of space that we have ever seen. 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. Graced by five 45-inch-wide gatefolds that display the lunar landscape, from above the surface and at eye level, in unprecedented detail and clarity, Full Moon conveys on each page the excitement, disorientation, and awe that the astronauts themselves felt as they were shot into space and then as they explored an alien landscape and looked back at their home planet from hundreds of thousands of miles away. 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.

KNOPF

Fascination with the life of freedom associated with cowboys and the American West is integral to the mythology of our time and culture. In his cinematic novel Ranch, Michael Light reveals as much about the myth as he does about the specific traditional California ranch that he photographs. "Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound, but the claustrophobic violence and domination required to turn the dream into reality are perhaps less familiar."--the publisher. Part of a new series of books with gravure illustrations, this monograph is exquisitely reproduced and a must for those interested in the myth and reality of the West.

Ranch

Rebecca Solnit

Twin Palms Publishers

The Future Lasts Forever utilizes the notion of autobiography as a way to explore the work of contemporary artists who are using archival material, exploring persistent subject matter, and examining their own personal histories. In addition, the practical ways and means that surround art practice and preserve works for the future beyond the ephemeral exhibition model are surveyed. To emphasize an autobiographical focus in egalitarian terms, accompanying texts featuring an articulation by each artist, publisher, or collector regarding his or her particular focus follow the portfolio. The cumulative effect of these projects serves to exemplify the evolution, over time, of a multifaceted and multicultural major American metropolitan region. INCLUDING WORK AND CONTRIBUTIONS BY: Cause Collective (Ryan Alexiev, Jessica Ingram, Bayete Ross Smith, Jorge Sanchez, and Hank Willis Thomas); Michael Light; Linda Connor; Chris McCaw; Lukas Felzmann; Richard Gordon; Apollonia Morrill; Robert Dawson; Youngsuk Suh; Louis Hock; Anne Collier; Victor Arimondi; Ivy Nicholson; Kevin Killian; Janet Delaney; Peter Tonningsen; Binh Danh; Hulleah Tsinhnajinnie; Tammy Rae Carland; Jessamyn Lovell; Lynn Hershman Leeson; Paul Schiek; Abner Nolan; Todd Hido; Charles Gatewood; V. Vale; Peter Berlin; Robert Mapplethorpe; Jack Fritscher; Lew Thomas; Ira Nowinski; Caitlin Atkinson; Richard Barnes; David Maisel; Mark Richards; Tom Marioni; Paul Kos; Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick.

An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parts 1 & 2, Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever

Jack Fritscher

Robert Mapplethorpe

Todd Hido

Kevin Killian

Anne Collier

Ivy Nicholson

Hulleah Tsinhnajinnie

Tammy Rae Carland

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Peter Berlin

Tom Marioni

SF Camerawork Publications

Full Moon. Aufbruch zum Mond. Das Jahrhundertereignis in Originalbildern

Frederking u. Thaler

Full Moon (2002) ISBN: 410538502X [Japanese Import]

Shinchosha

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