Moonscape

Artist NASA (American, founded 1958)

Date1971

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.05 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 10 inches (20.32 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Keith F. Davis

Object number2011.5.2

SignedStamped on sheet verso, bottom, in blue ink: "PHOTO CREDIT -- NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration".

InscribedStamped on sheet verso, top, in blue ink: "NASA-NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546 / FOR RELEASE: Filed: February 15, 1971 / PHOTO NO. 71-H-351 / AS14-64-9099."; Stamped on sheet verso, top, in blue ink: "This photograph is a government publication --not subject to copy- / right. / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or / by any NASA employee of a commercial product, process or service, or / used in any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is re- / quested that if this photograph is used in advertising, and other com- / merical promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release."; Stamped on sheet verso, center, in blue ink: “One of the Apollo 14 astronauts photographs a field of boulders / located just northwest of the Lunar Module during the Apollo 14 / extravehicular activity.".

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DescriptionImage of the surface of the moon with craters, the shadow of a figure is cast in lower left corner.Gallery Label

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This photograph depicts an astronaut from the Apollo 14 mission photographing a field of boulders on the moon’s surface. A glass plate engraved with crosshairs and affixed in front of the film plane helped scientists determine distances between objects in the field of view in them finished prints. This scientific visual vocabulary was emulated by Michael Bishop, whose witty "lunar landscape" hangs nearby.

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