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Photographing America’s First Astronauts
Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub
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Artikel-Nr:
9781612498560
Veröffentl:
2023
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2023
Seiten:
328
Autor:
J L Pickering
Gewicht:
1336 g
Format:
283x221x23 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Photo historian and author J. L. Pickering has conducted photo research into the US manned space program for nearly fifty years--acquiring, organizing, and restoring more than 250,000 prints, slides, transparencies, and digital files, the largest such private archive. His sources include government archives, NASA retirees, news photographers, private collectors, and auction houses. One of the world's leading manned space photography experts, he is regularly contacted by authors, retired astronauts, and even NASA for photo assistance.
Featuring more than 600 photos, Photographing America's First Astronauts: Project Mercury Through the Lens of Bill Taub is the most complete photographic account of Project Mercury ever published. Previous Project Mercury books largely have relied on the relatively limited number of photos released by NASA. This book, however, showcases hundreds of never-before-seen images of America's first manned space program by NASA's first staff photographer, Bill Taub. Taub went everywhere with the Mercury astronauts, capturing their daily activities from 1959 to 1963. As a result, his photos provide a unique and intimate behind-the-scenes look at the people and operations of Project Mercury in real time.