Festival
Paris Photo 2011
Daniel Blau Photography (UK | Germany)
NASA, Gemini 4, Thomas Stafford “First US Rendevous in Space: Gemini VI meets Gemini VII” December 15, 1965 presentation glossy paper c-print 35,4 x 28,3 cm
NASA, Orbiter 1 “First Photo from Earth as Seen from Lunar Orbit” Aug. 23, 1966 presentation silver gelatin print 19 (45,9) x 34,3 (40,7) cm
NASA, Surveyor VI “Moon Surface, day 316” November 12, 1967 presentation collage of silver gelatin prints inscribed with ink and stapled to a blueprint 23,7 (36,8) x 71,2 (77) cm Inscribed on label on mount: “Day 316 Survey W-C” The only surviving example of this Surveyor mosaic.
NASA, Orbiter 5 “Lunar Surface (Triptych)” 1967 presentation silver gelatin print
NASA, Apollo XI, Neil Armstrong “Aldrin Stands by Deployed Experiment Package with Lunar Module, Flag, and TV Camera Breaking the Monotony of the Lunar Surface in the Background” July 20, 1969 presentation c-print on Kodak PE paper 40,8 x 50,5 cm
NASA, Apollo 12, Alan Bean “Charles Conrad at the Surveyor III L.M. (Landing Module) Detaching the Camera” Nov. 19, 1969 presentation silver gelatin print on semi glossy paper 25,2 (18,5) x 20,3 (18,7) cm
NASA, Voyager 2 “Saturn’s Ring System” August 1981 presentation semi-glossy c-print on Kodak PE paper 40,7 x 50,5 cm
NASA, Gemini 4, Thomas Stafford “First US Rendevous in Space: Gemini VI meets Gemini VII” December 15, 1965 presentation glossy paper c-print 35,4 x 28,3 cm
Introduction
Daniel Blau is pleased to present a unique collection of rare vintage NASA photographs. These incredible pictures depict the wonder and awe of space travel.
These photographs have become part of our collective visual memory for the twentieth century; pictures that markedly symbolise the speed and power of post-war technological development at a time when Cold War tension was rife between the US and Russia.
And so began the space race; the period of the 1960’s that saw the first man on the Moon. Missile technology, taken from Germany at the close of WWII, set the technological precedence for manned space crafts to orbit the Earth, eventually landing on lunar soil: a period in human history incomparable to any other; photographed, with immense beauty, for the whole world to gaze in astound.
These are not simple snap-shots by an amateur, taken with a Kodak box, but the result of the combined efforts of thousands of workers and scientists at NASA. Indeed, these are the most expensive photographs ever produced. To see these prints in the flesh is an experience as close to bouncing on lunar soil as any of us will ever get. These magnificent landscapes can be compared to Gustav Le Gray’s large prints of Fontainebleau or his seascapes. Today we treasure these vintage prints for their artistic quality and as permanent visual evidence of a time when the future seemed so close...
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