Hasselblad and the Moon Landing

By: Debbie Ireland

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Hardcover | 1 December 2018

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Hardcover
96 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
20.0 x 20.0 x 1.78

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Product Description

On 20 July 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 space program, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people ever to set foot on the Moon. Their iconic 'small steps' were captured forever by the camera the astronauts carried with them: the Hasselblad 500EL.

Hasselblad & the Moon Landing looks at the history of the Apollo 11 mission through the lens of the Hasselblad, while narrating the parallel tale of the 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 in detail at the experience of taking photographs on the Moon for the first time; and reflects on the processing, preserving and legacy of those images, and the part they play in the enduring conspiracy theories that claim the Moon Landing to have been a grand hoax.

Book Features:

A unique perspective on the Moon landing
Examines the challenge of creating Hasselblad and its legacy
Features an album of the finest images from the Moon
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing

40 colour photographs and illustrations

About the Author

Debbie Ireland has spent 19 years working in photography, having held the positions of assistant curator of the Royal Photographic Society's archive and head of the AA World Travel picture library.

Industry Reviews

"It's an engagingly written story with some fascinating insights... The photographs are beautifully reproduced in their original square format and perfectly show off the astronauts' often under-appreciated compositional skills, while the accompanying words make for a thought-provoking juxtaposition. This book may be only a slim volume, but it is still packed with plenty of stunning images to savour. It's a great visual record of this most remarkable of human achievements." -- Amateur Photographer Magazine

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