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The view from space : American astronaut photography, 1962-1972.

Title: The view from space : [graphic] American astronaut photography, 1962-1972.
Publication: 1961-1972.

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Subject

Genre/Form

Panoramic photographs.
Portraits.
Self-portraits.
Photographic prints.
Photographic prints – Color.
Silver gelatin prints.
Space photographs.
Stereographs.

Note

Prints produced by Polaroid Corporation for the exhibit The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972, which toured through the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Sevice between July 1989 and August, 1993. Includes photographs by 16 astronauts, which were selected from a frame-by-frame examination of the photographic archives of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Projects by Ron Schick and Julia Van Haaften, the exhibit curators.
Some images, including the color panoramas, and an enlargement of a stereoscopic image are made up of multiple prints.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

Schick & Van Haaften, The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972, N.Y., 1988.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Detailed finding aid available.

Provenance (note)

Gift of the Polaroid Corporation, 1989.

Call Number

MFY+ 95-28

OCLC

NYPG95-F55

Title

The view from space : [graphic] American astronaut photography, 1962-1972.

Imprint

1961-1972.

Description

73 photographic prints : col. ; 51 x 51 cm or smaller, in 71 mats 66 x 71 cm. or smaller.

8 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 41 x 41 cm or smaller in mats 61 x 56 cm or smaller.

1 photographic print : silver gelatin, b&w ; 12 x 112 cm. in mat 36 x 122 cm.

2 photographic prints : col. ; 15 x 106 cm. or smaller in mats 36 x 122 cm.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at division indicated.

Indexed In:

Images reproduced in: Schick & Van Haaften, The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962-1972, N.Y., 1988.

Summary

Images of the earth, moon, sun, and space vehicles and astronauts: includes sunsets and earthrises, solar eclipses, natural features of the earth and moon, weather phenomena; locations on earth include: Algeria, Florida, Arabian desert, Himalayas, Szechwan Province in China, Great Bahamas Bank, the Nile delta, Corpus Christi Bay and Rio Grande delta plain, fires over Vietnam after bombing raid on Haiphong harbor, India, Africa and South America, the Pacific Ocean; images of astronauts include views in Gemini and Apollo craft, during extra-vehicular activities, and on the moon, including deploying ALSEP, jumping, posing with flag, and including one image that has photographer reflected in helmet of the other astronaut; family snapshot on the surface of the moon; space suits and helmets stowed aboard the lunar module; space vehicles, including a Saturn rocket stage, ATDA target vehicle, Agena target vehicle, Apollo Command and Lunar Modules.

Indexes

Detailed finding aid available.

Provenance

Gift of the Polaroid Corporation, 1989.

Added Author

Anders, William A. (William Alison), 1933-2024, Photographer

Bean, Alan, 1932-2018. Photographer

Cernan, Eugene A. Photographer

Collins, Michael, 1930-2021. Photographer

Conrad, Charles. Photographer

Cooper, Gordon, 1927- Photographer

Cunningham, Walter, 1932-2023. Photographer

Duke, Charlie, 1935- Photographer

Evans, Ronald, 1933- Photographer

Gordon, Richard, 1929- Photographer

Glenn, John, 1921-2016. Photographer

Lovell, James, 1923- Photographer

McDivitt, James A. Photographer

Schick, Ron.

Schirra, Wally, 1923- Photographer

Stafford, Thomas, 1930- Photographer

Van Haaften, Julia.

Worden, Alfred Merrill. Photographer

Polaroid Corporation.

Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.

Research Call Number

MFY+ 95-28

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