Pete Conrad (Apollo 12)
Portrait of Alan Bean with the reflection of the photographer in his visor, EVA 2, 14-24 November 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS12-49-7278" (NASA MSC) in black in top margin, with numbered NASA caption on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm
Pete Conrad took this sublime photograph of Alan Bean near Sharp Crater.
Bean holds a container of lunar soil in his right hand. His Hasselblad camera is mounted on the control unit on his chest.
Conrad is fully reflected in sharp detail in Alan Bean’s visor.
This celebrated picture has also been described as the first self-portrait on the Moon. (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060121.html)
“I’ve always thought those pictures... we took of each other on the Moon were all we were going to have left after it was over to remember what we did.”
Pete Conrad (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 40).
Literature:
Full Moon, Light, pl. 69; The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962–1972, Schick and Van Haaften, pg. 46; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 21; Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, pg. 14.
Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
27.09.2023 - 16:40
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Pete Conrad (Apollo 12)
Portrait of Alan Bean with the reflection of the photographer in his visor, EVA 2, 14-24 November 1969
Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS12-49-7278" (NASA MSC) in black in top margin, with numbered NASA caption on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm
Pete Conrad took this sublime photograph of Alan Bean near Sharp Crater.
Bean holds a container of lunar soil in his right hand. His Hasselblad camera is mounted on the control unit on his chest.
Conrad is fully reflected in sharp detail in Alan Bean’s visor.
This celebrated picture has also been described as the first self-portrait on the Moon. (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060121.html)
“I’ve always thought those pictures... we took of each other on the Moon were all we were going to have left after it was over to remember what we did.”
Pete Conrad (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 40).
Literature:
Full Moon, Light, pl. 69; The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography, 1962–1972, Schick and Van Haaften, pg. 46; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 21; Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts, Jacobs, pg. 14.
Expertin: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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