- Hardcover: 236 pages
- Publisher: Knopf (May 18 1999)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0375406344
- ISBN-13: 978-0375406348
- Product Dimensions: 29.7 x 2.6 x 29.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
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#270,383 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #24 in Books > Arts & Photography > Photography > Colour
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In Full Moon, one of the best science photography books ever published, Michael Light presents a voyage in images to the Moon and back. Light took NASA's master negatives of photos taken by Apollo astronauts and scanned them electronically. The resulting pictures are so vivid they seem more clear than real life. Light orders the photos sequentially, selecting the most arresting images from each mission, to create a truly cinematic experience. In the first section, depicting blastoff, you can almost feel the violent shaking of the rocket as it strains to escape Earth's gravity. Then you see the quiet stillness of weightlessness, the astronauts' view down at a perfectly silent Earth, boundless oceans contrasting with bright white clouds. A spacewalk adds vertigo--the astronaut looks fragile and very alone as he floats outside his capsule far above his home planet. Then comes the waiting, as the long voyage toward the Moon continues.
As you watch the cratered surface get closer and closer, you have no sense of scale until you see the miniscule silver and gold lander dropping gently to land on the Moon. Leaving the cluttered interior of the capsule in bulky, awkward suits, the astronauts bring delicate tracings of color--gold on the lander; red, white, and blue on the spacesuits' flag patches--to this black-and-white world. Five huge gatefolds in this section give you indescribable views of the intricately scarred surface of the Moon.
You return to space for the reuniting of the lander and capsule, and a repetition of the tedious journey back home. Finally, you watch a chaotic splashdown in the riot of colors that is Earth.
A nice section in the back of the book explains each photo with a detailed caption, and an essay by author Andrew Chaikin (A Man on the Moon) adds more written context to this stunning visual experience. The book is printed on very high-quality paper, with matte black frames for the photos and a gorgeous, wordless cover. Every space fan should have a copy. --Therese Littleton
From School Library Journal
YA-A San Francisco artist and photographer has pulled together 129 stunning, black-and-white and color photographs from 32,000 previously unavailable pictures of the Apollo missions. He has lovingly put them together to form one continuous moon voyage. The photos, mostly taken by astronauts, show fiery, explosive liftoffs; gorgeous, striking earthscapes; astronauts floating by their single umbilical cords in space; hauntingly beautiful moon shots; and many alternate shots recognizably from the first moon landing. An essay and a section explaining when, where, and by whom all the photos were shot are included. A terrific addition for libraries that need tie-ins with science, photography, history, or creative curricula.
John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply brilliant,
By Robertomelbourne (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Full Moon (Hardcover)
This is a superb pictorial record of man's journey to the moon.The photographs are simply stunning, detailed, and beautifully bound. Simply brilliant.
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The Perfection of Apollo,
By A Customer
This review is from: Full Moon (Hardcover)
The moon landing is the greatest thing this country has even done and Michael Light, like no one before him, indelibly captures the glory and majesty of the Apollo program. Drawing from NASA's stock of thousands of photographs, Light takes us on a hypothetical moon voyage from launch to splashdown. The flames of a Saturn booster are juxtaposed with the unreal contrasts of the lunar surface. Such a collection of space photography is an unprecedented event.His achievement is all the more impressive when one considers that the photographs he has compiled were not strictly the work of professionals, but rather the work of astronauts -- scientists, pilots and engineers who captured the beauty of an alien world as well as any painter could hope to do.
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Full Moon,
By A Customer
This review is from: Full Moon (Hardcover)
A voyage to the Moon & back: a stunning, mysterious, elegant sequence of 145 photographs-most of them never before published-selected from 32,000 taken by the Apollo astronauts & preserved in the NASA archives. Chosen by Michael Light & arranged to show us a composite voyage, infinitely more immediate & moving than any special-effects simulation we have seen, these breathtaking photographs reveal the experience of space travel in all its audacious splendor. Here is the baptism by fire at liftoff; the vertiginous experience of space-walking; the utterly incomparable emptiness of the lunar landscape. We see the Moon's surface irrevocably changed by the arrival of men & their equipment; & the glowing blue ball of Earth, indescribably beautiful at such enormous physical & psychological distance. Wonderful in the truest sense of the word, Full Moon makes astronauts of us all, allowing us to see one of the most extraordinary journeys of all time through the eyes of the men who made it.
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