Project Full moon photographs. [Image processing 1999, printed 2000]

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Project Full moon photographs. [Image processing 1999, printed 2000]

The six photographic prints are selections from Michael Light's project Full moon. Color photographs include an image of astronaut Edward White walking in space (Gemini 4, 1965), the Sahara Desert seen from an orbital altitude of two-hundred miles (Gemini 11, 1966), a close-up of the hatch window of command module Yankee Clipper (Apollo 12, 1969), and a view of the sun reflecting off the Pacific Ocean (Apollo 17, 1972).

6 photographic prints : direct-digital chromogenic prints, col., b&w, some mounted on foam core ; 123 x 245 cm. and smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8215671

Getty Research Institute

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