Back Side of Moon
Artist
NASA
(American, founded 1958)
Date1967
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 16 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches (40.96 x 34.61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2822
InscribedTitled
The lunar area seen includes the equator and the south pole (on the horizon)
Verso
Description: From a series of three photographs (B-1)
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 11 - November 13, 2011, no cat.
Beginning in the early 1960s, NASA made astonishing photographs of the moon and various planets in our solar system. These images— particularly those made by unmanned satellites and robot landing craft—were memorable for the strangeness of both their subjects and their technical means. Their complex creation gave new meaning to the idea of the photographic “document.” This image was made by one of the Lunar Orbiter crafts, which mapped the moon’s surface in unprecedented detail.
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Ernest Lowe
1961
2005.27.2745
