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Article: Moon Shots.(photographs of the Apollo space missions)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- May 3, 1999
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The most thrilling of all journeys--the Apollo missions to the moon--yielded 32,000 extraordinary photographs. The world has known only a handful. Until now.
The Apollo missions began pretty dimly for me at the age of 4, but by the time the lunar explorations concluded with Apollo 17, this worldly 9-year-old had come to accept men on the moon as a predictable--if still thrilling--fact. But the era ended quickly, and we all moved on. Twenty-five years later, I thought about Apollo again, this time as a landscape photographer fascinated with the differences and similarities between images of our home ground and those of other worlds. Deep down, I was driven by the ...