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| Full Moon | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Light
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Category: Book
List Price: £35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 518153
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 243
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 11.6 x 1
ISBN: 0224051288
Dewey Decimal Number: 523
EAN: 9780224051286
ASIN: 0224051288
Publication Date: June 10, 1999
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The Apollo missions, completed between 1967 and 1972, were achieved due to the magnificent co-operative effort of 400,000 men and women, and resulted in the miraculous feat of no deaths, six lunar landings, and over 32,000 photographs. To mark the 30th anniversary of the first landing, the Hayward Gallery in London held an exhibition in Summer 1999 of a selection of those photographs under the title "Full Moon". Indulge yourself in the catalogue of the show and it will take your breath away. Artist and photographer Michael Light has drawn on Nasa's huge archive to put together an archetypal lunar journey in images, from take-off to landing. It is awesome. To communicate the necessary density required a special black ink --"Luna Nero" was developed solely for the printing of this book, and the latest digital resources were used to process miles of black-and-white negatives and colour transparencies to a unique razor-sharp clarity. With five gatefold montage panoramas included, this is landscape photography at its best. Astronauts take their first steps in space, their cables attaching them to their mother craft like giant umbilical cords. The moody surface of the moon changes with every picture, resembling fried egg-white, Emmental cheese, and bubbling broth, magnificent desolation where humankind is the alien. Everything is shadow, scale, texture, trails. Ultimately space travel, like any journeying, is about where you come from rather than where you are going, and the pictures of the Earth taken from space are about as life-affirming as anything you will see. The final image, taken from a capsule that has landed in the Pacific Ocean, ironically shows a seascape redolent of the moon, but appropriately coloured Earth-defining blue. Andrew Chaikin, author of the definitive study of the Apollo missions A Man in the Moon, has written a well-observed essay to complement Light's sequence, but there is no doubting the stars of the show, so to speak. At a time when we've bewilderingly lost a sense of space, this luxurious and spiritual book brilliantly captures something of it anew. --David Vincent
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Its a truly beautiful book.......you'll want to keep forever. May 10, 2008
It is everything that previous reviewers have said, stunningly beautiful pictures and well put together panoramas, there are only the breifest of descriptions to each photo but that is all that is needed,the pictures speak for themselves.
Awe-inspiring January 31, 2001
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
These beautiful photographs simply take your breath away. You almost feel as if you're there.A fitting testament to the Apollo program and all the people who made it happen.
Just like being there March 22, 2000
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
For someone who was too young to appreciate the Apollo moon landings at the time, this book gives me the feeling I was actually there, with the astronauts! The exceptionally high quality of the images, most of which need no caption makes this almost without exception one of the astronomical books of the decade, if not the century!Its a pity that this book shows us what we lost when we left the moon in 1972, and what awaits us when we return.
If ever a book deserved a soundtrack... February 25, 2000
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
An awesome book, both aesthetically and technically. Turning the pages, I found myself almost expecting to hear the soundtrack to go along with the images. The deafening roar of Saturn Five's engines, the gentle clarinet as the Appolo ventures into the shoals of space, the stabbing chord as the stark desolation of the moon comes into view.A fitting tribute to Man's greatest achievement.
A moment in history February 24, 2000
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Full Moon captures that moment in time between 1965 and 1972 when Apollo was underway. These were the days before computers, the web and the Internet were thought of as consumer items. The beauty of the pictures and the starkness of many show fragile humans far from home. It is a book to wonder at. The pictures were exhibited in London during 1999 and although a book cannot display them as well as when hung on a wall and well lit, it does allow the reader to relive those amazing moments when the human race left Earth and waled on the Moon.
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