Photographing the Moon 1840-Now

MOON

28 X 23 CM – 224 PAGES – HARDCOVER – ENGLISH EDITION – €39,95 – ISBN 978 94 9267 799 0

On 21 July 1969, at 2.56am UTC, Neil Alden

Armstrong became the first man to set

foot on the moon. Fifty years later, MOON

takes you on a photographic journey to our

nearest celestial body, and back again. The

subject of dreams and the imagination, but

also the catalyst for a global Space Race:

the moon leaves no one untouched.

Editors Maarten Dings and Joachim

Naudts (FOMU Antwerp) go in search of

the story behind this elusive disc in our

firmament and reconcile its scientific,

political and poetic aspects. MOON

reveals the early days of photography and

includes images by Draper (1840) and

Whipple (1852), together with plates from

the unsurpassed lunar atlas by Loewy &

Puiseux (1896–1910). This book explores

the pivotal year of the Apollo mission in

1969 and the Cold War era, yet also allows

contemporary artists to shine their light on

the moon. The result is a stimulating flow

of images that balances on the fine line

between fact and fiction, and between

bitter seriousness and sweet dreams.

In this richly illustrated publication you will

find 19th-century historical photography,

archival images from NASA and Life

magazine and a wide range of work by,

among others, Annemie Augustijns, Fabrizio

Boni & Giorgio De Finis, Tom Callemin, Cortis

& Sonderegger, Cristina de Middel, Joan

Fontcuberta, Vincent Fournier, Léon Gimpel,

Harry Gruyaert, Kikuji Kawada, Sjoerd

Knibbeler, Michael Light, Agnes Meyer-

Brandis, Joel Meyerowitz, Aleksandra Mir,

Lisa Oppenheim, Johan Österholm, Katie

Paterson, Robert Pufleb & Nadine Schlieper,

Penelope Umbrico and Garry Winogrand.

With essays by Wilco Versteeg and James

Attlee.

Publication accompanying the MAAN/MOON

exhibition at Fotomuseum Antwerp, from

28.06.2019 – 06.10.2019.