Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics
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Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics

Photographing Early Human Spaceflight

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Purdue Studies in Aeronautics and Astronautics

Photographing Early Human Spaceflight

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Featuring over seventy images from the heroic age of space exploration, Through Astronaut Eyes presents the story of how human daring along with technological ingenuity allowed people to see the Earth and stars as they never had before.

Photographs from the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs tell powerful and compelling stories that continue to have cultural resonance to this day, not just for what they revealed about the spaceflight experience, but also as products of a larger visual rhetoric of exploration. The photographs tell us as much about space and the astronauts who took them as their reception within an American culture undergoing radical change throughout the turbulent 1960s.

This book explores the origins and impact of astronaut still photography from 1962 to 1972, the period when human spaceflight first captured the imagination of people around the world. Photographs taken during those three historic programs are much admired and reprinted, but rarely seriously studied. This book suggests astronaut photography is particularly relevant to American culture based on how easily the images were shared through reproduction and circulation in a very visually oriented society. Space photography's impact at the crossroads of cultural studies, the history of exploration and technology, and public memory illuminates its continuing importance to American identity.

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Publisher
Purdue University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781557539335
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Aeronautic & Astronautic Engineering
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Halftitle Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: Interpreting Astronaut Photography
  10. Chapter 1: Why an Amateur Needs a Better Camera than a Professional
  11. Chapter 2: Photographs for Every Audience
  12. Chapter 3: Images of Exploration
  13. Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Astronaut Photography
  14. Epilogue: Continuing Resonance
  15. Notes
  16. Archival and Bibliographic Sources
  17. Index
  18. About the Author