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Title: Hasselblad & the Moon Landing
Author: IRELAND DEBBIE
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/12/2018
Imprint: AMMONITE PRESS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
The second half of the book presents a commemorative album of photographs taken in space
using the Hasselblad 500EL. While the Apollo 11 astronauts left their three cameras behind on
the Moon, where they remain to this day, they brought back film magazines containing 1,400
photographs. A selection of the finest of these is shown alongside the mission timeline and
transcripts of the conversations between the astronauts and mission control at Houston,
completing a beautiful commemorative guide to mark the 50th anniversary of one of
humankind’s most remarkable achievements.
40 colour photographs and illustrations
ISBN: 9781781453346
Dimension: 200mm X 200mm