Photographing the Moon 1840-Now

MOON28 X 23 CM – 224 PAGES – HARDCOVER – ENGLISH EDITION – €39,95 – ISBN 978 94 9267 799 0On 21 July 1969, at 2.56am UTC, Neil AldenArmstrong became the first man to setfoot on the moon. Fifty years later, MOONtakes you on a photographic journey to ournearest celestial body, and back again. Thesubject of dreams and the imagination, butalso the catalyst for a global Space Race:the moon leaves no one untouched.Editors Maarten Dings and JoachimNaudts (FOMU Antwerp) go in search ofthe story behind this elusive disc in ourfirmament and reconcile its scientific,political and poetic aspects. MOONreveals the early days of photography andincludes images by Draper (1840) andWhipple (1852), together with plates fromthe unsurpassed lunar atlas by Loewy &Puiseux (1896–1910). This book exploresthe pivotal year of the Apollo mission in1969 and the Cold War era, yet also allowscontemporary artists to shine their light onthe moon. The result is a stimulating flowof images that balances on the fine linebetween fact and fiction, and betweenbitter seriousness and sweet dreams.In this richly illustrated publication you willfind 19th-century historical photography,archival images from NASA and Lifemagazine and a wide range of work by,among others, Annemie Augustijns, FabrizioBoni & Giorgio De Finis, Tom Callemin, Cortis& Sonderegger, Cristina de Middel, JoanFontcuberta, Vincent Fournier, Léon Gimpel,Harry Gruyaert, Kikuji Kawada, SjoerdKnibbeler, Michael Light, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Joel Meyerowitz, Aleksandra Mir,Lisa Oppenheim, Johan Österholm, KatiePaterson, Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper,Penelope Umbrico and Garry Winogrand.With essays by Wilco Versteeg and JamesAttlee.Publication accompanying the MAAN/MOONexhibition at Fotomuseum Antwerp, from28.06.2019 – 06.10.2019.