David Scott (Apollo 15)
Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover in front of Mount Hadley, 26 July - 7 August 1971
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber based paper, printed 1971, numbered "NASA AS15-86-11603" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
“Vistas without parallel in human experience surrounded the crews on the great voyages of exploration.”
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-250, p. 265)
At Apollo 15’s desolate Moon base beneath the shadowy mass of Mt. Hadley, astronaut James Irwin tends to the ungainly but precious lunar rover, the $13 million Moon buggy that carried Irwin and Dave Scott 18 miles through the lunar highlands and made the latest space venture, in Scott’s words, “exploration at its greatest.”
Literature:
LIFE, 20 August 1971, ppg. 26-27; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 120; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 29.
Specialist: Mag. Eva Königseder
Mag. Eva Königseder
+43-1-515 60-421
eva.koenigseder@dorotheum.at
27.09.2023 - 17:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 1,430.-
- Estimate:
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EUR 1,200.- to EUR 1,800.-
- Starting bid:
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EUR 600.-
David Scott (Apollo 15)
Portrait of James Irwin and the Lunar Rover in front of Mount Hadley, 26 July - 7 August 1971
Vintage chromogenic print on fiber based paper, printed 1971, numbered "NASA AS15-86-11603" (NASA MSC) in red in top margin, with NASA caption and "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm
“Vistas without parallel in human experience surrounded the crews on the great voyages of exploration.”
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt (NASA SP-250, p. 265)
At Apollo 15’s desolate Moon base beneath the shadowy mass of Mt. Hadley, astronaut James Irwin tends to the ungainly but precious lunar rover, the $13 million Moon buggy that carried Irwin and Dave Scott 18 miles through the lunar highlands and made the latest space venture, in Scott’s words, “exploration at its greatest.”
Literature:
LIFE, 20 August 1971, ppg. 26-27; Space: A History of Space Exploration in Photographs, Chaikin, pg. 120; Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 29.
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 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Wien | Palais Dorotheum |
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