Full Moon~Michael Light~1999~Stated First Edition~First Printing~Very Good Condition~Collectible~Free Shipping

Full Moon~Michael Light~1999~Stated First Edition~First Printing~Very Good Condition~Collectible~Free Shipping.

This beautifully crafted book on the lunar missions and the photos of the moon is a classic. The details are amazing! Fold outs. See photos. Tight binding. Minor cover wear. This book is 11.5 inches by 11.5 inches.

“Michael Light (born 1963) is a San Francisco-based photographer and book maker whose work focuses on landscape, the environment, and American culture's relationship to both. He is known for aerial photographs of American western landscapes collectively titled "Some Dry Space: An Inhabited West" and for two archival projects focused on historical photographs of the Apollo lunar missions and U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonation tests, represented by the books Full Moon (1999) and 100 Suns (2003), respectively. Los Angeles Times critic Leah Ollman characterized his work as "largely about what we consider ours, how we act on that assumption, and what the visual manifestations of those claims look like ... [It] seduces and troubles in shifting measure."

Light's archival projects, Full Moon and 100 Suns, are concerned with power, landscape and the human relationship to vastness. He explored these themes in books and exhibitions that eschewed polemics in favor of narrative, interpretive curation and matter-of-fact presentation: historical images with little or no text that proffered "the quotidian bumping gently into the unprecedented," according to New Yorker critic Anthony Lane.

Light's book Full Moon (1999) comprised 129 largely unpublished images taken by astronauts on the 1968–72 lunar missions, which he culled from more than 33,000 stills in the NASA archive. He digitally scanned master duplicates of the original film, reproducing the precise detail (dust, craters, mountains and seas) and "airless clarity" created by the vacuum of space. He then organized the images into a "composite" mission—including sophisticated, multi-image photomontages—of journey, spacewalking and return to Earth, to tell a less traditional, more human and personal story. Reviews described the resulting landscapes as dazzling and terrifying, "strangely fragile and tranquil," and visually disorienting in their collapse of spatial reality; Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight wrote that Light's method produced an exhilarating "dual sense of scientific reality and science fiction." - From Wikipedia

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