Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography by Fineman, Mia

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

This fascinating view of lunar imagery explores visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography...
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Author: Mia Fineman
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Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography by Fineman, Mia

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

CHF 69.76

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

CHF 69.76
Author: Mia Fineman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
This fascinating view of lunar imagery explores visual representations of the moon from the dawn of photography to the present

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, Apollo's Muse honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary video art. Engaging and accessible, the book explores how photographers captured this celestial body--and how the images have in turn inspired artists, writers, and scientists.

The book's wide-ranging focus includes extraordinary reproductions of the first successful series of lunar daguerreotypes by the American photographer John Adams Whipple, along with film stills from Voyage dans la Lune (1902) by Georges Méliès; American "paper moon" studio portraits; images from the Apollo mission; and works by contemporary artists, including Vija Celmins, Roy Lichtenstein, Aleksandra Mir, Vik Muniz, Nam June Paik, and Robert Rauschenberg. Related prints, drawings, paintings, and astronomical instruments explore artists' fascination with the moon, as an object of both art and science. A foreword by actor Tom Hanks, star of the award-winning 1995 film Apollo 13, outlines the importance of lunar images to art and cinema, reinforcing the universal fascination with representations of the cosmos.

Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press


Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(07/01/19-09/22/19)



Author: Mia Fineman, Beth Saunders
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Published: 07/16/2019
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 9.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781588396846

About the Author
Mia Fineman is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beth Saunders is head of special collections at the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Tom Hanks is an Academy Award-winning actor and space enthusiast.


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