Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
Pete Conrad exiting the LM Intrepid to make his first step on another world, EVA 1, 14-24 November 1969
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS12-46-6716" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm
“The first frames of Apollo 12’s magazine 46/Y by Alan Bean of Pete Conrad offers the most distinctive sequence of an Apollo astronaut descending the Lunar Module to the surface of the Moon of any of the six manned landings” (Dick, Chapter 15).
“I couldn’t get down there, so I just turned the camera upside down and flashed a few. And they all turned out pretty good.”
Alan Bean (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 115:20:07 GET).
Literature:
The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962-1972, Schick and Van Haaften, p. 101 (variant); Images from Space, The Camera in Orbit, Arnold, pl. 18 (variant).
Specialist: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
27.09.2023 - 16:18
- Realized price: **
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EUR 1,430.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 1,000.- to EUR 1,500.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 100.-
Alan Bean (Apollo 12)
Pete Conrad exiting the LM Intrepid to make his first step on another world, EVA 1, 14-24 November 1969
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1969, numbered "NASA AS12-46-6716" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 25,4 x 20,3 cm
“The first frames of Apollo 12’s magazine 46/Y by Alan Bean of Pete Conrad offers the most distinctive sequence of an Apollo astronaut descending the Lunar Module to the surface of the Moon of any of the six manned landings” (Dick, Chapter 15).
“I couldn’t get down there, so I just turned the camera upside down and flashed a few. And they all turned out pretty good.”
Alan Bean (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 115:20:07 GET).
Literature:
The View from Space: American Astronaut Photography 1962-1972, Schick and Van Haaften, p. 101 (variant); Images from Space, The Camera in Orbit, Arnold, pl. 18 (variant).
Specialist: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | The Beauty of Space - Iconic Photographs of Early NASA Missions |
| Auction type: | Online auction |
| Date: | 27.09.2023 - 16:18 |
| Location: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | Online |
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